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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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adverb

in a way that is correct and exact; without error

“She measured the ingredients accurately to ensure the cake turned out perfectly.”

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Dictionary Entry

ordinal number

Part of Speechnoun

(grammar) A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.

In a Sentence

“First, second and third are the ordinal numbers corresponding to one, two and three.”

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Synonyms

ordinalordinal numeral

Antonyms

cardinalcardinal numbercardinal numeral

Related Words

ordinalitysequencenumerationnumbernesslimit ordinalnumber systemsuccessor

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