Meaning & use

18th

number·Everyday

The ordinal number matching eighteen in a sequence; coming after the seventeenth.

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Her birthday falls on the 18th of March every year.

The team finished 18th out of thirty runners in the marathon.

A note on using this word

18th is the abbreviated form of eighteenth, commonly used in dates, rankings, and addresses.

Words with a similar meaning

eighteenth

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