Ordinal Definition

ôrdn-əl
adjective
Expressing order or succession, specif. of a number in a series.
Webster's New World
Being of a specified position in a numbered series.
An ordinal rank of seventh.
American Heritage Medicine
Of an order of animals or plants.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
noun

Ordinal number.

Webster's New World
A book of instructions for daily services.
American Heritage
A book of prescribed forms or ceremonies.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Ordinal

Noun

Singular:
ordinal
Plural:
ordinals

Origin of Ordinal

  • Middle English ordinel orderly, regular from Late Latin ōrdinālis ordinal from Latin ōrdō ōrdin- order ar- in Indo-European roots N., sense 2, from Middle English from Medieval Latin ōrdināle from Late Latin neuter sing. of ōrdinālis ordinal

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin ordinalis, adjective formed from noun ordo, order, + adjective suffix -alis

    From Wiktionary

Ordinal Sentence Examples

  • Enderlein has recently shown that the jaws of the Hemiptera can be recognized in a reduced condition in connexion with the louse's proboscis, the modification is so excessive that the group certainly deserves ordinal separation.

  • Instead of distinguishing the days by the ordinal numbers first,, second, third, &c., the Romans counted backwards from three fixed epochs, namely, the Calends, the Nones and the Ides.

  • On the whole, the ordinal use is perhaps the more common.

  • There are, in addition, various other forms (Seroand Exo-sporidia), also primitive in character, but which are as yet too insufficiently known for it to be certain whether they are of distinct ordinal rank, or should be placed with the Haplosporidia.

  • One of the primary distinctions in the use of number is between ordinal and cardinal numbers, or rather between the ordinal and the cardinal aspects of number.

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Words Starting With

OORORD

Words Ending With

LALNAL

Unscrambles

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With O7 Letter Words Ending With L