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thousand

thousand

1.0
A number equal to 1,000
  • numeral
  • /ˈθaʊzənd/
translation icon : mil
  • That stuff is going to run you thousands and thousands of dollars.
  • one thousand dollars
  • several thousand
  • a few thousand

There are hundreds or thousands of them in most cells.

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Examples

  • There are thousands of stars visible on a clear night in the countryside.

  • We've had universities for thousands and thousands of years.

  • There are hundreds or thousands of them in most cells.

  • And for a couple thousand years gold has worked.

  • We have helped thousands and thousands of men.

  • And they very quickly find hundreds, if not thousands of people who want in.

  • I look out and I see thousands of people with different hopes.

  • There are hundreds of thousands of rabbis all over the area.

  • Hundreds of ships were wrecked and damaged, thousands of sailors drowned.

  • The charity helped provide clean water to thousands of families in the region.

Synonyms

1000
vsthousand
1.0

A number equal to ten times one hundred

is the same value but often written out in words
one thousand
vsthousand
26 1.0

A number equal to 1,000

is the same value but usually written as digits

Idioms

4 8.5

To have complete success in many tries

1 7.9

A very polite way to say sorry

1 8.8

Many small problems that slowly make something stop working

1 8.6

To feel very afraid or worried many times

Many different reasons for something

7.5

Many different reasons a person gives to avoid blame

9.1

A joking phrase used to say a very large amount or level

Feel so happy that your face shows it

Compounds

The number equal to 100,000

74 1.0

A number equal to ten thousand items

26 1.0

A number equal to 1,000

The number equal to 100,000

A creamy sauce for salads and sandwiches made from mayonnaise and chopped pickles

A collection of Arabic folk tales from the Middle East, also called Arabian Nights

A number equal to 1,000,000,000 written as one followed by nine zeros

A number equal to one million

4.8

A famous book of stories from the Middle East and South Asia

A small long creature with many legs like a millipede

How Many

million
  • Informal
417 1.0
thousand
1.0
gross
  • Archaic
11 5.8
dozen
453 1.0
pair
889 1.0
single
54 1.0

Surface Forms

thousand cardinal word
1000 cardinal digit
1,000 cardinal digit
1.000 cardinal digit

Etymology

Thousand comes from an old German word, like German tausend. People thought of it as 'ten hundreds', which is why thousand names the number '1,000'.