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how manyth

how manyth adjective: standing for an unknown or queried ordinal number.

Adjective

how manyth (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard) Standing for an unknown or queried ordinal number.
    • I'm telling you for the how manyth time: I don't know!
    Synonyms:
    whatth, umpteenth

Synonyms of how manyth

Forms of how manyth

alternative formhow-manyth
alternative formhow manieth
alternative formhow-manieth
alternative formhow manyeth
alternative formhow-manyeth
alternative formhow many-eth
alternative formhow-many-eth

Origin of how manyth

From how many + -th (ordinal suffix). Equivalent constructions are perfectly standard in many of the world’s languages (compare the translations below).

Questions about how manyth

What does how manyth mean?
How manyth means standing for an unknown or queried ordinal number.
What part of speech is how manyth?
How manyth is an adjective.

Words near how manyth in the dictionary

  1. how many
  2. how many fingers am I holding up
  3. how many languages do you speak
  4. how many siblings do you have
  5. how many stops until
  6. how manyth
  7. how much
  8. how much do I owe you
  9. how much do you charge
  10. how much does it cost
  11. how much is it

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