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millionth

millionth

10 4.6
A person or thing that is number one million in a sequence
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪljənθ/
translation icon : millonésimo
  • We have very exciting news today because we signed up our one millionth subscriber, Mrs. Carol Findley of Ames, Iowa!
  • the millionth customer
  • the millionth time
  • the millionth person

Examples

  • After a year of growth, our YouTube channel finally reached its one millionth subscriber.

  • In late November, I got the e-mail from Mark telling me to come out for the millionth-member party.

    The Social Network (2010)

  • Well, you, you may be our one millionth customer.

  • Well sold its millionth copy in 2000.

    Academic text (2009)

  • We celebrated the arrival of our one millionth visitor to the museum last weekend.

  • She was thrilled to be the one millionth person to purchase a ticket for the concert.

Compounds

one-millionth
1 3.6

One of a million equal parts of a whole

one-hundred-millionth
8.8

One of one hundred million equal parts of a thing

How Late

millionth
10 4.6
thousandth
1 2.1
hundredth
7 1.0
tenth
35 1.0
first
7 1.0

Surface Forms

millionth singular
millionths plural

Morphology

millionth = million (transparent) = million + th

Morphologically the same as the ordinal sense: 'million' + '-th' yields the positional noun 'the millionth' in a sequence.

Etymology

Millionth combines million (from Italian milione and mille 'thousand') with the ending -th for position. So as a noun a millionth is the item that is number 1,000,000 in a list, the one that comes after nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine others.