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thousand

thousand

1.0
Describing something that has 1,000 items
  • adjective
  • /ˈθaʊzənd/
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  • The farmer harvested a thousand apples from his orchard this season.

But this particular aspect of this low carb diet is helpful for let's just say the majority of the people in that thousand person sample.

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Examples

  • There were almost a thousand stars visible in the night sky.

  • She earned a thousand points on the test, which was the highest score in the class.

  • It's like if you had a big thousand piece puzzle on a table.

  • And this thousand Watt piece of, I mean, come on, it weighs absolutely nothing.

  • But this particular aspect of this low carb diet is helpful for let's just say the majority of the people in that thousand person sample.

  • And right now we have Ned Brockman approximately like halfway through his attempt to break the thousand mile record on the track in Centennial Park.

Synonyms

1000
vsthousand
1.0

A number equal to ten times one hundred

is the written word form used in running text
one thousand
vsthousand
26 1.0

A number equal to 1,000

is the single-word form used more commonly in normal writing
thou
vsthousand
  • Archaic
7 8.6

An informal word for one thousand units of money

is the neutral formal term used in most contexts rather than slang
k
vsthousand
2.3

An abbreviation for one thousand used with numbers and money

is the full spoken and written word used instead of shorthand
m
vsthousand
  • Jargon
5.4

A symbol meaning one thousand, often used with money or numbers

is the general everyday term used outside technical contexts

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

Surface Forms

thousand positive

Etymology

Thousand comes from an old German word, like German tausend, and people long ago thought of it as 'ten hundreds', so we use thousand as an adjective to mean '1,000 of something'.