Eighty-seventh

Numeral

numeral

1. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number eighty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 87 of a sequence.The answer appears on the eighty-seventh page of the book.She finished eighty-seventh in the race.

Usage notes

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

Abbreviations

• 87th, 87

Full definition of eighty-seventh

Noun

1. (fractional) One of eighty-seven equal parts of a whole.An eighty-seventh of 1740 is 20.

Anagrams

• seventy-eighth