Definition of "eighty-fifth" in English

adjective

1. The ordinal form of the number eighty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 85 of a sequence.

   • The answer appears on the eighty-fifth page of the book.
   • She finished eighty-fifth in the race.

noun

1. One of eighty-five equal parts of a whole.

   • An eighty-fifth of 1700 is 20.