seventy-second

English

English ordinal numbers

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Cardinal : seventy-two     Ordinal : seventy-second

Adjective

seventy-second

1. The ordinal form of the number seventy-two, describing a person or thing in position number 72 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the seventy-second page of the book.

   She finished seventy-second in the race.

2. Lasting seventy seconds.

Usage notes

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

Abbreviations

• 72nd, 72^nd

Translations

ordinal form of seventy-two

• Afrikaans: twee-en-sewentigste (af)
• Catalan: setanta-dosè (ca)
• Dutch: tweeënzeventigste (nl)
• Esperanto: sepdek-dua
• Finnish: seitsemäskymmenestoinen, seitsemäskymmeneskahdes
• French: soixante-douzième
• German: zweiundsiebzigste
• Greek: ἑβδομηκοστοδεύτερος (hebdomēkostodeúteros) (Byzantine Greek)
• Hungarian: hetvenkettedik (hu)
• Italian: settantaduesimo
• Malayalam: എഴുപത്തിരണ്ടാം (eḻupattiraṇṭāṁ)
• Manchu: ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨᠵᡠ
  ᠵᡠᠸᡝᠴᡳ (nadanju juweci)
• Polish: siedemdziesiąty drugi
• Romanian: șaptezeci și doilea m or n, șaptezeci și doua f
• Turkish: yetmiş ikinci
• Ukrainian: сімдеся́т дру́гий (simdesját drúhyj)

Noun

seventy-second (plural seventy-seconds)

1. One of seventy-two equal parts of a whole.

   A seventy-second of 1440 is 20.

Translations

one of 72 equal parts

• Finnish: seitsemäskymmeneskahdesosa