thousand
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- noun
- /ˈθaʊzənd/
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- The charity event raised over a thousand dollars for the local shelter.
Examples
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There are literally thousands of series characters out there, some excellent, many less so.
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Someday, a species that has been extinct for thousands of years will walk again.
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I hear those stories by the thousands, and it's amazing.
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You have these thousands and thousands of beautiful stories.
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And then you have thousands of people coming with their dreams.
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The answer is they are many thousands of light years apart.
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Listen, this language has been dead for thousands of years.
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And so humans have been using these for thousands of years.
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Well, there are thousands of viruses out there.
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The walls and pews were covered with thousands and thousands of white roses.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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A number equal to ten times one hundred
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A number equal to 1,000
A group of one thousand things
Idioms
Compounds
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A creamy sauce for salads and sandwiches made from mayonnaise and chopped pickles
- Literature
A collection of Arabic folk tales from the Middle East, also called Arabian Nights
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Etymology
Thousand comes from an old German word, like German tausend, and was used to mean a large group of one thousand things, so the noun thousand means the number '1,000'.