1,000th

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1,000th (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of 1000th.
    • 1854, [Edward Law], Rudimentary Chronology of Civil and Ecclesiastical History, Art, Literature, and Civilisation. From the Earliest Period to 1854., volume I, London: John Weale, [], page 75:
      The Ludi Sæculares are celebrated, in commemoration of the 1,000th year of Rome, with great pomp.
    • 1922, C. K. Shepherd, “The Dixie Highway”, in Across America by Motor-Cycle, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green & Co.; London: Edward Arnold & Co., page 56:
      At Springfield the speedometer flicked off the 1,000th mile, and I branched away from the “Pike’s Peak” Ocean-to-Ocean Highway (for such it appeared to be), and turned south-westward towards Dayton, a flourishing manufacturing and business centre.
    • 1966 May 3, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 89th Congress, Second Session, volume 112, part 8, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 9731, column 2:
      Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, today marks the 175th anniversary of the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791. It is also the 1,000th anniversary of Polish Christianity.
    • 2019, D.N. Dettwiler, Beyond the Door: The Chronicles of the Team, Nashville, Tenn.: Elm Hill, →ISBN, page 72:
      To celebrate the 1,000th year of the humans’ arrival in the spaceship, many flying animals worked together to bring up into the sky and drop an icecracker that had been growing since the first Christmas after the humans’ arrival.