eighty-sixth

eighty-sixth

1. The ordinal form of the number eighty-six, describing a person or thing in position number 86 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the eighty-sixth page of the book.

   She finished eighty-sixth in the race.

English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

• 86th, 86^th

eighty-sixth (plural eighty-sixths)

1. One of eighty-six equal parts of a whole.

   An eighty-sixth of 1720 is 20.

• sixty-eighth