thousandth
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- adjective
- /ˈθaʊzəndθ/
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milésimo
- He realized that he had asked the same question for the thousandth time during the lecture.
- thousandth time
Examples
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Mrs. Greenspan, strikingly sober today, still didn't miss a chance to stick the shiv in Hillary for the thousandth time -- "Mrs. Clinton also responded to Edwards' dropping out, but not as passionately or dramatically."
Blog text (18) -
One of the most spectacular examples of this is the "alternative" celebration of Our Lady's two thousandth birthday.
Academic text (1990) -
All right, a thousandth and a millionth.
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My heart aches for her, and I wish for the thousandth time that there was something I could do.
Fiction book (1996) -
On his thousandth birthday, the leprechaun laid claim to the lass and by daybreak she was never heard from again.
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I can see the homes, seemingly glued to the side of a cliff-like mountain, and it occurs to me for the thousandth time that I am far from home.
Blog text (16) -
She put her feet on his shoulders; he ran his hands along her thighs and told her for the thousandth time she had the greatest breasts in the universe.
Fiction book (1993) -
After explaining the process for the thousandth time, she finally felt her efforts were beginning to pay off.
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For the thousandth time, they celebrated their anniversary at the restaurant where they first met.
Synonyms
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One of a thousand equal parts of something
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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
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Morphology
Etymology
Thousandth as an adjective comes from an old English word thousand meaning 'one thousand' together with the ending -th meaning 'in order'. So if something is called thousandth, it is number 1,000 in a series or describes one part of a thousand.