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/ˈsʌmθɪŋθ/ · adjective
(informal) Used to indicate the position of a number which is uncertain or unimportant..
Weymouth, Sept. the somethingth.
"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.
A concert was to take place in the great hall of the Institute for some local charity, we believe, but are not sure, at which the élite of Alexandria was expected, and the musical talent was to perform—among others the band of the somethingᵗʰ Regiment. And let us impress on you, reader, that the band of the somethingᵗʰ Regiment was something to be proud of!
Alfred Hitchcock, still chipper at 76, is back with his fifty-somethingth picture—even the experts seem to have lost count, and disagree.
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.
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. This rendered all the following digits (almost 200) of Shanks' Pi in error.
Use somethingth when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Somethingth means (informal) Used to indicate the position of a number which is uncertain or unimportant..
Common synonyms include how manyth, whatth.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Weymouth, Sept. the somethingth.
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