thousand
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- adjective
- /ˈθaʊzənd/
- The farmer harvested a thousand apples from his orchard this season.
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- So matching the particular microbe to our own thousand species is going to be a bit of luck.
Examples
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There were almost a thousand stars visible in the night sky.
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She earned a thousand points on the test, which was the highest score in the class.
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It's like if you had a big thousand piece puzzle on a table.
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And this thousand Watt piece of, I mean, come on, it weighs absolutely nothing.
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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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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
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A number equal to ten times one hundred
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A number equal to 1,000
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An abbreviation for one thousand used with numbers and money
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An informal word for one thousand units of money
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A symbol meaning one thousand, often used with money or numbers
Idioms
Compounds
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A creamy sauce for salads and sandwiches made from mayonnaise and chopped pickles
- Literature
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A famous book of stories from the Middle East and South Asia
- Literature
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A collection of Arabic folk tales from the Middle East, also called Arabian Nights
Surface Forms
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'.