postdeterminer

postdeterminer
/pohst'di terr"meuh neuhr/, n. Gram.
a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
[POST- + DETERMINER]

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