ten thousand
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- numeral
- Hence, each hunting party returns with a value of ten thousand sequins.
- ten thousand dollars
- ten thousand years
- ten thousand years ago
Examples
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The charity received a generous donation of ten thousand dollars to support their programs.
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Remember, every one of the ten thousand terminals on your circuit breaker module is marked in a particular color.
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At least ten thousand items.
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I'll pay you ten thousand dollars.
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I'll give you ten thousand dollars
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Our task is to build a marking system that will survive for at least ten thousand years.
Fiction book (1993) -
At present, Bailey's normally prints ten thousand copies of every title.
Fiction book (1990) -
Dennis yelled at Ivy, telling her that she had cost them ten thousand dollars.
Fiction book (1991) -
By the 1860s, some matches already attracted more than ten thousand paid onlookers.
Academic text (1991) -
From its peak of ten thousand members in 1876, only 347 Georgians still belonged in 1885.
Academic text (2009)
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The value '10,000' is the straightforward compositional result of combining 'ten' (10) and 'thousand' (1,000), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can derive the meaning. Numeric composition is regular and cross-linguistically common, making this expression immediately transparent.
Etymology
Ten thousand became an easy image to remember because many old cultures used 10,000 as a 'big round group' when talking about large numbers. So today ten thousand is the exact number 10,000 and is also a simple way to say 'a very large amount'.