125th
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- adjective
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centésimo vigésimo quinto
- As the Clipper surfaces in Harlem, it pulls up to the 125th Street station.
- 125th anniversary
- 125th year
Examples
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125th Street, by the Henry Hudson, by the diner?
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Shouldn't you be on 125th Street?
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- I was walking down 125th street, and suddenly, I stopped.
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But you do not have a voice below 125th Street.
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- You can get it on 125th Street.
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Right around the corner, 125th and Third.
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Peter told me to meet him under the El on 125th Street in a bar there.
Fiction book (1993) -
Hop off at 125th Street.
Fiction book (1997) -
Proceeding west on 125th street.
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The parade will take place on the 125th anniversary of the city's founding.
Synonyms
The position number 125 in a list, order, or series
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Surface Forms
Morphology
125th = 125 (transparent) = 125 + th
Standard ordinal formation: the ordinal suffix '-th' is attached to the numeral to form an ordinal adjective; meaning is directly predictable from the base number.
Etymology
The word 125th is the ordinal form of 125 and is made by adding the ending -th to show 'order' or position. You see the same -th in words like fourth and tenth, so 125th simply tells which place something or someone has in a list.