160th
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- adjective
- /ˈsɪkstiˌθ/
- That May, our unit, the 1-160th Infantry of the California National Guard, was wrapping up a year in Iraq.
Examples
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More helicopters belonging to the 160th Aviation Regiment were scheduled to arrive on transports throughout the night.
Fiction book (1996) -
Linton's Saron United Church of Christ wants to celebrate its 160th anniversary next year by making a splash—quite literally—in Humphreys Park.
Blog text (33) -
Mr. Winstead will be giving his 160th pint of blood on Tuesday.
Blog text (15) -
Preslar will be the 160th grand master for the Grand Lodge, which is 225 years old.
Blog text (6) -
Oh, and when possible, everybody uses the 160th SOAR as a taxi and hopes they are available for rotary wing fire support.
Blog text (14) -
In a similar pattern to other recent rescues, the commandos were dropped off by 160th SOAR MH-60L Black Hawks some two miles from the hostages' location, where they subsequently hiked to the caves through the region's forested mountains.
Blog text (28) -
The 160th anniversary celebration attracted many former students back to campus.
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This is the 160th time we have held this event since it started in 1863.
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They reported their 160th victory in the league this season.
Synonyms
The position number 160 in a list
Surface Forms
Morphology
160th = 160 (transparent) = 160 + th
Formed by the numeral '160' plus the ordinal suffix '-th'; the ordinal meaning is directly predictable from the base number.
Etymology
160Th is the form of 'one hundred sixty' that shows a place in a line, and the ending -th tells you it is an order word, just like in fourth or fifth. So, 160th means the person or thing in the '160' position, coming after the 159th and before the 161st.