thousandth
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈθaʊzəndθ/
:
milésima
- "Do I look fat?" I asked him once, for the thousandth time, when we were finding seats at the movies.
- thousandth time
- one-thousandth
- thousandth person
Examples
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For the thousandth time, there's no such thing as ghosts.
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But for the thousandth time, turnout will determine who wins the presidency and Congress.
Blog text (12) -
For the thousandth time, yes.
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"Be quiet," I tell them, for the thousandth time today.
Fiction book (2000) -
Rejected for the thousandth time in 14 years.
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So let me be the thousandth person to ask you what is consciousness?
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For the thousandth time, I said, "Swallow that thing."
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Whatever could he do to save them, he wondered for the thousandth time.
Fiction book (1998) -
For the thousandth time, I wondered why I hadn't signed up for the archaeology course.
Fiction book (1999) -
For the thousandth time, I explained my point of view during the meeting.
Synonyms
1
3.6
One of a thousand equal parts of something
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1.0
The position after nine hundred ninety-nine in a list
Compounds
One of one hundred thousand equal parts or the position number for one hundred thousand
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thousandth comes from an old English word thousand meaning 'one thousand' and the ending -th that turns a number into an order, like 'fourth'. So the thousandth person or thing is the one in position 1,000.