# Cardinal numeral | | In linguistics, and more precisely in traditional grammar, a **Cardinal numeral** is a part of speech used to count. Examples in English are the words one, two, three, and the compounds three hundred [and] forty-two and nine hundred [and] sixty. Cardinal numerals are classified as definite, and are related to ordinal numbers, such as the English first, second, third, etc. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Cardinal numeral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_numeral) |