Meaning & use

26th

number·Everyday

The ordinal number matching 26 in a sequence; the position after the twenty-fifth.

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My birthday falls on the 26th of March this year.

He finished the marathon in 26th place out of over a thousand runners.

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Ordinal numbers like 26th are used for dates, rankings, and sequence, written with the suffix "th" after the numeral.

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