- (abbreviations)1000th, 1000th (also written with a comma following the 1 or, in technical usage, with a thin space following the 1)
Fromthousand +-th(suffix forming an ordinal number).
- IPA(key): /ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/,/ˈθaʊzən(d)ð/
- Rhymes:-aʊzəntθ
- Hyphenation:thou‧sandth
thousandth (notcomparable)
- Theordinal numeral form ofone thousand; last in order of a series of athousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.
ordinal form of 1000
—see also1000ththousandth (pluralthousandths)
- (singular only) The person or thing in the thousandth position.
- One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
1891,Oscar Wilde, chapter XIV, inThe Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.:Ward Lock & Co.,→OCLC,page256:“Ah, Alan,” murmured Dorian, with a sigh, “I wish you had athousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.”
the person or thing in the thousandth position
one of a thousand equal parts of a whole
