thousand

[ thou-zuhnd ]

/ ˈθaʊ zənd /

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noun, plural thou·sands, (as after a numeral) thou·sand.

a cardinal number, 10 times 100.

a symbol for this number, as 1000 or M.

thousands. the numbers between 1000 and 999,999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property damage was in the thousands.

a great number or amount.

Also thousand's place .

(in a mixed number) the position of the fourth digit to the left of the decimal point.
(in a whole number) the position of the fourth digit from the right.

adjective

amounting to 1000 in number.

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Origin of thousand

before 900; Middle English; Old English thūsend; cognate with Dutch duizend,Old High German dūsunt,Old Norse thūsund,Gothic thūsindi

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British Dictionary definitions for thousand

thousand

/ (ˈθaʊzənd) /

noun

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100See also number (def. 1)

a numeral, 1000, 10³, M, etc, representing this number

(often plural) a very large but unspecified number, amount, or quantitythey are thousands of miles away

(plural) the numbers 2000–9999the price of the picture was in the thousands

the amount or quantity that is one hundred times greater than ten

something represented by, representing, or consisting of 1000 units

maths the position containing a digit representing that number followed by three zerosin 4760, 4 is in the thousand's place

determiner

amounting to a thousanda thousand ships
(as pronoun)a thousand is hardly enough

amounting to 1000 times a particular scientific unit

Other words from thousand

Related prefix: kilo-Related adjective: millenary

Word Origin for thousand

Old English thūsend; related to Old Saxon thūsind, Old High German thūsunt, Old Norse thūsund

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Idioms and Phrases with thousand

thousand

see bat a thousand; by the dozen (thousand); one in a million (thousand); picture is worth a thousand words.

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