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1000th

1000th

1 1.0
The position after nine hundred ninety-nine in a list
  • adjective
  • /wʌn ˈθaʊzəndθ/
translation icon : milésimo
  • A notation by Padre Noriega on Fructuoso's baptism record celebrates the fact that he was the 1000th Indian baptism at Mission Carmel.

Examples

  • Peter walked into the supermarket to find that he was the store's 1000th customer and won free groceries for a month.

  • And tonight is advertised as Miss Laura Keene's 1000th and final performance of the role of Florence Trenchard, opposite the actor Harry Hawk as Asa Trenchard.

    Killing Lincoln (2013)

  • This is like the 1000th person who's said that.

    Blog text (20)

  • They're only like the 1000th fan to use that excuse to get up here to see Jordan, okay?

    Stuck in the Suburbs (2004)

  • Peter walked into the supermarket to find that he was the store's 1000th customer and won free groceries for a month.

    Blog text (11)

  • You're our 1000th customer this month.

  • On October 25th, Match.com celebrated our 1000th Stir event in San Francisco at the trendy Supperclub.

Synonyms

thousandth
vs1000th
1 2.1

In position number one thousand in a list

is the same ordinal meaning but appears as digits rather than as a word
one-thousandth
vs1000th
1 3.6

One of a thousand equal parts of something

denotes only the ordinal position at one thousand, not a fractional part

How Late

1000th
1 1.0
300th
4 1.0
100th
61 1.0
tenth
35 1.0
first
7 1.0

Surface Forms

1000th positive
1000-th positive
one thousandth positive
one-thousandth positive

Morphology

1000th = 1000 (transparent) = 1000 + th

The suffix '-th' is a standard ordinal marker in English, making the transformation clear.

Etymology

1000Th comes from the number thousand, meaning 'one thousand', plus the ordinal ending -th that shows order, as in fifth or tenth, so 1000th means the thing in the 'one thousand' position.