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somethingth

Syllables: some·thingth/ˈsʌmθɪŋθ/

somethingth adjective: used to indicate the position of a number which is uncertain or unimportant.

Adjective

somethingth (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Used to indicate the position of a number which is uncertain or unimportant.
    • Weymouth, Sept. the somethingth.1808, [William Pitt Scargill?], “Bouverie Cottage—Disappointment; The Court-Martial”, in Sketches of Character, or Specimens of Real Life. […], volume III, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, and...
    • "The Emperor Nero," said Janet, "He killed Harry's friend, Seneca [the Younger], in the eighty-somethingth year of his age; an old man, and—hush, grandada!" She could not check him.1870 September – 1871 November, George Meredith, “Commencement of the Splendours and Perplexities of My Father’s Grand Parade”, in The Adventures of Harry Richmond. […], volume II, London: Smith...
    Synonyms:
    how manyth, whatth

Examples of somethingth in a sentence

  • Alfred Hitchcock, still chipper at 76, is back with his fifty-somethingth picture—even the experts seem to have lost count, and disagree.1976 April 19, John Simon, “Old Man Out”, in Clay S[chuette] Felker, editor, New York, volume 9, number 6, New York, N.Y.: New York Media...
  • The third son of a baron, he trained for a distantly royal personage thirty-somethingth from the throne, a snob-value combination that had brought him Rich's custom in the first place.1992, Dick Francis, chapter 1, in Driving Force, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 11:
  • In 1949, a computer programmed by man calculated the first 2035 digits of Pi and found that [William] Shanks had made an error in the 500-somethingth digit of Pi.2003, Melvin Goldstein, “The Computer”, in Physics Foibles: A Book for Physics, Math and Computer-science Students, Victoria, B.C....

Synonyms of somethingth

Origin of somethingth

From something + -th (suffix forming ordinal numerals when the final term of the number is not ‘first’, ‘second’, or ‘third’).

Questions about somethingth

What does somethingth mean?
Somethingth means used to indicate the position of a number which is uncertain or unimportant.
How do you use somethingth in a sentence?
Alfred Hitchcock, still chipper at 76, is back with his fifty-somethingth picture—even the experts seem to have lost count, and disagree.
What part of speech is somethingth?
Somethingth is an adjective.
How do you pronounce somethingth?
Somethingth is pronounced /ˈsʌmθɪŋθ/ (UK).

Words near somethingth in the dictionary

  1. somethinged
  2. somethinging
  3. Somethingism
  4. somethingness
  5. somethings
  6. somethingth
  7. somethink
  8. sometime
  9. sometimes
  10. sometimes a cigar is a cigar
  11. sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

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