What is an ordinal numeral?

Definition
	An ordinal numeral is a numeral belonging to a class whose members designate positions in a sequence.

Examples (English)
	First Second Third

Generic
	An ordinal numeral is a kind of
	What is a numeral?

Concept module: ordinal numeral
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