# Ordinal numeral | | In linguistics, **Ordinal numeral**s or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on. They differ from cardinal numerals, which represent quantity and other types of numerals. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Ordinal numeral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_numeral) |