thousandn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈθaʊznd/, U.S.

/ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/

Forms: Old English–Middle English þusend, Middle English þusent, ( Orm.) þusennd, Middle English þusand, þusund, þousunt, Middle English þousend, Middle English–1500s thousande, Middle English thus(s)-, thos(s)and(e, Middle English þous-, þows-, thous-, thows-, -and(e, -ant(e, -aund, -end, -ent, -ind(e, -ond(e, -ynd, Middle English–1600s thowsand, Middle English þouzand, þowzand, thouzand; Middle English– thousand (modern Scottish thoozan(t).

Etymology: Old English þúsend, noun feminine and neuter = Old Frisian thûsend, Old Saxon thûsundig, thûsind (Dutch duizend), Old High German dûsunt (Middle High German tûsent, German tausend), Salfrank. þûschunde, Old Norse þúsund (þúshund, þúshundrað, Swedish tusen, Danish tusind), Gothic þûsundi, noun feminine and neuter. Generally held to be cognate with Lithuanian túkstanti-s, Latvian tūkstoš, tūkstotis, Old Prussian *tūsimta (accusative plural tūsimtons), Old Church Slavonic tysąšta, -ęšta, Russian tysjača, Polish tysiac, Czech tisíc, pointing to an original Slavo-Germanic *tūssontiā or tussntjā, whence also Old Germanic *þūsundi. The first element is considered by many to be an Indo-European *tūs meaning ‘multitude, force’; compare Sanskrit tawás ‘strong, force’; as to the rest of the word etymologists differ. The general result is that þūsundi was probably an indefinite term for a ‘great multitude’ (compare Greek μυριάς, -αδ-, in its indefinite, and myriad in its common English use), which was used as the available equivalent of Greek χῑλιάς and Latin mīlle, themselves probably originally indefinite words, there being no general Indo-European word for ‘thousand’.

1. The cardinal numeral equal to ten times one hundred; represented by the symbols 1000 or m (for Latin mīlle), formerly often by m, or ^m, as xxx^m.

a. As noun or quasi-noun, with plural.

(a) In singular. Usually a thousand, emphatically or precisely one thousand.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > thousand

thousand971

M1396

thou1867

971 Blickl. Hom. 119 Nis..nænig mon þe..wite..hwæþer þis þusend sceole beon scyrtre ofer þæt þe lengre.

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 110/12 Ciliarcus, þusendes ealdor.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10679 Bi þusund & bi þusend þer feollen [sc. Sexes] æuere in þene grund.

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7490 Men and wymmen, many a thousand.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxiii. 1360 Ten hundred makiþ a þousend.

1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iv. 49 A thousande fiue hundred seuentie and nine.

1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling x. §6. 256 A thousand to one they have..some gnawing cares..that defeats their comfort.

1912 N.E.D. at Thousand Mod. Bricks are sold by the thousand.

(b) In plural thousands (Old English þúsendu, -o, -a, Middle English -e, -es).In Arithmetic often elliptical for the digits denoting the number of thousands: cf. units, tens, hundreds.

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c893 tr. Orosius Hist. v. iv. §2 Þider for mid monegum þusendum.

OE Beowulf 2195 He..him gesealde seofan þusendo.

c1000 Ælfric Joshua vii. 3 Ac twa þusenda oððe þreo læt faran.

a1120 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 694 (Laud) Cantwara..him gesealdon xxx þusenda.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 274 Þider in iwenden moni þusunde [c1300 Otho mani þusend].

c1275 Laȝamon Brut 465 Ich habbe..in þan mountes mani þusendes.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 19134 Þare was conuertid thusandis [Gött. thousandes] V.

c1425 [see sense 1a(c)].

1543 R. Record Ground of Artes ii. sig. Q.vi Then adde I y^e thousandes together.

1615 W. Mure Misc. Poems xiv. 12 Metamorphos'd his thowsands in milleounes.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 24/2 They amounted in all to some thousands.

1877 H. Spencer in Min. Evid. Copyright Comm. (1878) 258 Now I simply have to print additional thousands as they are demanded.

(c) After another numeral the singular is now commonly used as a collective plural. (Cf. dozen n., hundred n. and adj.)But in Old English the plural form was usual: see (b).

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c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 282 Twegen îas, getitelode ī ī, getacniað twa þusend.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 234 Ich habbe in þane munten monie þusund [c1300 Otho þusendes].

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 43 Hire weoren..hund þousunt deade.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1789 Þe brutons sywede after,..& slowe mani þousend.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiv. 31 If he may with ten thousynd go aȝens him that cometh to him with twenty thousynd.

c1425 Crafte Nombrynge (E.E.T.S.) 29 In þe 5 place [he schuld betoken] sexty þowsant... In þe 8 place sexty þowsant thowsantes.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xviii. 330 For one that tryumpheth, a hundred thousand are led in captiuitie.

1912 N.E.D. at Thousand Mod. How many followers has he? He claims to have fifty thousand. The hall will seat four thousand.

(d) As a noun it takes after it of, representing the Old English genitive plural. Now after a numeral only as a unit of quantity by which things are sold.A thousand of, thousands of, are used partitively as in the case of other numerals.

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c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. x. §4 On an scip mæge an þusend manna.

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. ii. v. §2 Hie acuron endlefan þusend monna.

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 334 Ða gehyrde he..sang..manega ðusenda engla.

c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 311 Eahta þusend tida.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 35 Moni þusent monne mahte libben fele ȝere mare þenne he do.

c1275 Shires & Hund. 58 in Old Eng. Misc. 146 xxvi. þusend hida.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4078 Godes wreche ðor haueð of-slagen xx.iiij. ðhusent of ðagen.c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 540 Many hundrid thousind of soulis han lyued ful vertuoseli.c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xi. 78 What shal I ȝeue þe for all þese þousand of godes?1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) i. sig. Aiv/2 He fedde many thousandes of people. wyth fewe looues of brede.1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 329 Ane thousand, and ma, of fensabill men.1597 S. Finche Let. 18 Feb. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 153 Four loads of flinte..will well save one thousand of bricke.1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ii j The King of Persia with his wife Cæsarea and many thousand of their followers.1657 S. Clarke (title) A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners, held forth in some thousands of examples.1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 52 Twenty Thousand of Bricks.1749 T. Short Gen. Chronol. Hist. Air I. 456 Countless Thousands of Bra Geese by Flights of five or seven Minutes Distance, were continually making to the Southward.1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 51 Thousands of arrobas were..obtained.

b. As adjective or quasi-adjective, followed immediately by a plural (or collective) noun.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > thousand

thousandc1000

millenary1604

milliary1753

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 458 Iob..wæron eft forgoldene..þusend getyme oxena and þusend assan.

a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1101 Rotbert..sceolde..þreo þusend marc seolfres habban.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15510 He fedde fif þusennde menn Wiþþ fife barrliȝ lafess.

c1200 Vices & Virt. 115 Mani þusend hali saules.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 8/243 More þane a þousend ȝer.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 465 Þis þousinde wynter & more.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. 672 He brought over the mountaynes a xxx. thousande fyghtinge men.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 66 b Him..that was once worthe three thousande pounde, and is not nowe worthe three grotes.

c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 2 Manye knightes with seaven thowsand men.

1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) ii. vii. 237 So many thousand Christians so barbarously murdered.

1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiv. 307 You've lost about a thousand pounds' worth of sketches.

a. Often used vaguely or hyperbolically for a large number: cf. hundred n. and adj.So ten thousand, thousands, thousands of thousands, thousand and one.

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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude

sandc825

thousandc1000

un-i-rimeOE

legiona1325

fernc1325

multitudec1350

hundred1362

abundancec1384

quantityc1390

sight1390

felec1394

manyheada1400

lastc1405

sortc1475

infinityc1480

multiplie1488

numbers1488

power1489

many1525

flock1535

heapa1547

multitudine1547

sort1548

myriads1555

myriads1559

infinite1563

tot-quot1565

dickera1586

multiplea1595

troop1596

multitudes1598

myriad1611

sea-sands1656

plurality1657

a vast many1695

dozen1734

a good few1756

nation1762

vast1793

a wheen (of)1814

swad1828

lot1833

tribe1833

slew1839

such a many1841

right smart1842

a million and one1856

horde1860

a good several1865

sheaf1865

a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869

immense1872

dunnamuch1875

telephone number1880

umpty1905

dunnamany1906

skit1913

umpteen1919

zillion1922

gang1928

scrillion1935

jillion1942

900 number1977

gazillion1978

fuckload1984

c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) iii. 5 Ic me nu na ondræde þusendu folces.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1 A Thousent sythis haue I herd men telle That there is Ioye in heuene.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10090 Þe sunn o rightwisnes,..Hir mad a thusand sith sa bright.

1549 M. Coverdale in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ded. sig. +.iii What vayne pylgremages, what offerynges and lyghtes to stockes and stones..with thousandes moe inconueniences.

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 37 I give you a thousand thanks.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical v. 49 Some of them [sc. ladies] having Scab'd, or Pimpled Faces, wear a Thousand Patches to hide them.

1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day iii. 63 Ten thousand thousand Fathoms still remain.

1779 Mirror No. 67. ⁋11 You may do good to thousands.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 157 A thousand ridiculous stories were propagated, at his expence.

1821 Ld. Byron Isles of Greece in Don Juan: Canto III 47 And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations;—all were his!

1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) II. xxxiii. 239 Of all the thousand and one towns I saw in America, I think Buffalo is the queerest looking.

1839 E. W. Lane (title) The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A new translation from the Arabic, with copious notes.

1842 Dumfries Herald Oct. Clean them from the worms of the thousand-and-one flies that feed on them.

1880 W. S. Gilbert Pirates of Penzance 1 You will find me a wife of a thousand.

1896 S. Baring-Gould Broom-squire 245 Ten thousand parks where deer run, Ten thousand roses in the sun.

1910 W. L. Phelps Ess. Mod. Novelists iii. 63 All the thousand and one details that make up the daily routine of the average person.

1962 J. Wain Strike Father Dead iv. 206 Would I be likely to suggest coming along as your manager if I didn't know a thousand and one ways of making myself useful?

b. Phrases: a thousand times, no: certainly not; similarly a thousand times, yes (rare); I believe you, thousands wouldn't (and similar expressions): ambiguous responses to remarks received with scepticism; death of (or by) a thousand cuts: a succession of minor hurts that are cumulatively very serious or annoying; a thousand of bricks: see brick n.¹ and adj.¹ Phrases 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > affirmation and denial > [adverb] > as an emphatic affirmative

absolutely1825

rather1836

a thousand times, yes1896

definitely1931

deffo1940

damn straight1964

the mind > language > statement > negation > [adverb] > no > certainly not

for nothinglOE

not (to do something) for the worlda1375

for foul or fairc1405

not for a moment1785

not on your life1791

not for Joe (Joseph)1844

no siree1845

not much1871

a thousand times, no1896

not on your tintype1900

not for all the tea in China1937

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > scepticism > expressing scepticism [phrase]

I believe you, thousands wouldn't1926

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > other injuries > succession of

death of (or by) a thousand cuts1966

1896 ‘M. Rutherford’ Clara Hopgood v. 57 ‘No,’ said Madge, ‘a thousand times no.’

1897 H. James Spoils of Poynton xxii. 279 A thousand times yes—her choice should know no scruple.

1926 R. H. Mottram Crime at Vanderlynden's 46 ‘I did twelve months in the line, as a platoon commander. How long did you do that?’ ‘Twelve months about!’ ‘I believe you where thousands wouldn't.’

1932 A. Christie Peril at End House xvii. 199 Am I sure, myself, about anything at all? No, no—a thousand times, no.

1966 tr. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung xxvii. 258 ‘He who is not afraid of death by a thousand cuts dares to unhorse the emperor’—this is the indomitable spirit needed in our struggle to build socialism and communism.

1968 ‘C. Aird’ Henrietta Who? x. 97 ‘I don't even know..what I don't know.’ Bill Thorpe nodded comprehendingly. ‘I follow you—though thousands wouldn't.’

1974 D. Seaman Bomb that could Lip-read ix. 73 The head of the rocket..chips off tiny fragments of steel... The poor buggers who get in the way die the death of a thousand cuts.

1980 G. Greene Dr. Fischer vii. 39 It had to be the death of a thousand cuts. He told her he forgave her..but he told her also that he could never forget her betrayal.

1980 P. Moyes Angel Death xx. 255 I can believe it. Thousands wouldn't.

1981 P. Turnbull Deep & Crisp & Even vii. 116 ‘Don't you think I'm too old?’ ‘No, a thousand times, no!’

1982 P. Inchbald Sweet Short Grass xx. 172 Oh, Franco! Yes! A thousand times yes!

3. Elliptical uses.

a. A thousand of some weight, measure, or quantity; e.g. acres, pounds, cubic feet, years, pieces, packages, etc. according to the nature of the commodity, etc.

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a900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 648 (Parker MS.) Her Cenwalh gesalde Cuþrede his mæge iii þusendo londes be Æsces dune.

c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) cxviii[i]. 72 Me is micle betere,..þonne mon me geofe geara ðusende goldes and seolfres.

a1300 Early Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (Thornton) cxviii[i]. 72 Ouer thousandes ofe siluer ore golde.

1443 Acts Privy Counc. (1835) V. 281 To delivere Johan Dawnsonn maister of þordenances of my Lorde of Somerset iiij^ml salpetre iij^ml sulphure.

1482 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 169 Of the thousand irne ij s.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 21 Instead of looking twenty, he looked a thousand.

1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. lxi. 512 Mere words, supplied at so much the thousand.

1884 Sat. Rev. 7 June 758/1 He dines at 6, plays [billiards] a thousand-up by gaslight.

1896 G. B. Shaw Let. 15 Feb. (1965) I. 597 Men who rattle off their copy at anything from 20/- to 40/- a thousand.

1901 Daily Express 28 Feb. 4/6 The price of gas in London in 1876 was 3s. 9d. per thousand.

1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence iii. 14 We would talk..of editors and the sort of contributions they welcomed, how much they paid a thousand, and whether they paid promptly or otherwise.

b. A thousand pounds sterling; (U.S.), a thousand dollars.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a thousand pounds

thousand1567

grand1946

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a thousand dollars

grand1915

thousand1919

yard1926

G1928

dime1958

1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iii. iv. f. 99 A merchaunt mannes compter: y^t is to day wourth thousands.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 3 Come downe you bishopps from your thousands, and content you with your hundreds.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. v, in Wks. I. 578 A man of two thousand a yeere.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. xiv. 209 A clear rental of five-and-twenty thousand per annum.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. ix. 199 A merchant on 'Change,..having lost his thousands, embarks a few guineas upon the next ship.

1919 E. O'Neill Moon of Caribbees 163 Smith said he would give two thousand cash if I would sell the place to him.

1942 Amer. Mercury July 85 He might confidence Sweet Back out of a thousand on a plate.

†4. As ordinal: = thousandth adj. and n. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > thousand > a thousandth

thousandc1400

thousandth part1561

millesm1635

millesimal1719

thousandth1793

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > thousand > thousandth

thousandc1400

thousandth1552

millesimal1685

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvi. 74 He knew noȝt þe thowsand parte of his gude.

14.. Tundale's Vis. 1923 (Edinb.) Not by an hvndryþe þowsand part.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 43 Breake but a part of the thousand part of a minute in the affairs of loue.

1680 N. Lee Cæsar Borgia Ep. Ded. sig. A3 My best Merits are not the ten thousand part of his smallest labours.

Compounds

C1. Forming attributive compounds with a noun, as thousand-acre, thousand-dollar, thousand-guinea, thousand-mile, thousand-pound, thousand-round, thousand-year (hence thousand-year-long, thousand-year-old, etc.).

thousand-acre adj.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [adjective] > of specific number of acres

forty-acre1742

thousand-acre1895

1895 Daily News 30 Nov. 3/4 The attempt to turn England into a rural arcadia of thousand acre farms.

thousand-guinea adj.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > specific values

twopenny1532

sixpenny1592

fourpenny1597

threepenny1627

ninepenny1632

ten-pound1673

two-bit1802

four-figure1842

million-dollar1854

two-cent1859

thousand-guinea1894

thruppence1895

five-figure1971

six-figure1971

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. 111 Princes..who pay them thousand-guinea fees.

thousand-mile adj.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [adjective] > of a thousand miles

thousand-mile1875

1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Apr. 450/1 The thousand-mile wall of dense forest.

thousand-pound adj.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective] > weighing specific amount

scrupular1656

sextulary1657

semuncial1887

thousand-pound1898

multi-kilo1971

1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 June 5/1 A thousand-pound projectile..tore a gaping hole in the emplacement.

1902 London Mag. June 484/1 Accused of systematically uttering forged Bank of England thousand-pound notes.

thousand-year-long adj.

ΚΠ

1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 45 So I fled with steps uncertain On a thousand-year long race.

C2. Parasynthetic, as thousand-eyed (having a thousand eyes), thousand-footed, thousand-handed, thousand-headed, thousand-hued, thousand-petalled, thousand-sided, thousand-souled, thousand-voiced, etc., adjs.

thousand-eyed adj.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > having > specific number

one-eyedOE

monoculusc1450

Polyphemian1602

monoculate1618

monocular1640

unocular1653

monoculous1656

Polyphemous1695

monoptical1821

Polyphemic1837

triocular1844

monophthalmic1857

monops1857

two-eyed1864

thousand-eyed1871

1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 171 There the thousand-eyed Lord..is attended by thousands of houris.

1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 209 The thousand-eyed is a common epithet of Indra.

thousand-footed adj.

ΚΠ

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly May 880/2 To take shelter..under one of the thousand-footed bridges.

thousand-handed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [adjective] > having

one-handedc1225

handed1613

manual1646

bimanous1832

two-handed1847

thousand-handed1870

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 145 This thousand-handed art.

† thousand-headed adj. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [adjective] > having many heads or faces

triple-headed1581

two-headed1596

thousand-headed1599

polycephalous1659

septi-fronteda1708

three-headed1905

1599 J. Sylvester tr. J. Du Nesme Miracle Peace in Fraunce 29 Thou thousand-headed head-les Monster-most.

thousand-hued adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > many colours

all-coloured1605

multicolorate1651

polychrome1819

polychromic1825

multicoloured1845

polychromatic1848

thousand-hued1852

polychromed1857

polychromous1880

multicolour1881

polychromatous1889

multiple-colour1899

multi1970

panchromatic1971

1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 490 Fluttering its wings in lightnings thousand-hued.

thousand-petalled adj.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > of or having petals

foliaceous1658

monopetalous1687

pentapetalous1687

polypetalous1687

hose-in-hose1688

monopetalose1693

pentapetalose1693

tetrapetalose1694

tetrapetalous1697

tripetalose1698

tripetalous1704

hexapetalous1707

petalous1719

petaloid1720

planipetalous1730

petaline1783

petaliform1788

petalled1793

polypetal1803

hexapetaloid1813

hexapetaloideous1830

tripetaloid1830

tripetaloideous1830

unipetalous1831

petaliferous1847

macropetalous1857

sympetalous1870

apopetalous1875

anisopetalous1880

petally1888

thread-petalled1899

thousand-petalled1951

decapetalous-

synpetalous-

1951 L. MacNeice tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust ii. ii. 204 But here at Pharsalus was fought a master model To prove how might opposes greater might and tears To shreds the lovely thousand-petalled wreath of freedom.

1970 Times 10 Mar. 17/2 (advt.) A hitherto unrecorded Baccarat ‘thousand-petalled’ rose weight.

thousand-sided adj.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > with nine or more sides or angles

decagonal1571

thousand-sided1704

nonagon1754

dodecagonal1854

tridecilateral1882

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. ix. 387 Four, five, or a thousand-sided figures..are capable of a greater number of relations..than simple triangles are.

thousand-souled adj.

ΚΠ

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vi. 574 Coleridge has most felicitously applied to him a Greek epithet..μυριόνους, the thousand-souled Shakspeare.

thousand-voiced adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [adjective] > vocal sound > sound of many

thousand-voiced1898

1898 Westm. Gaz. 2 Sept. 5/1 Amidst the thousand-voiced tumult.

C3.

thousand-feet n. a millepede or centipede.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of

scolopender1562

centipede1601

scolopendra1608

forty-foot1677

millipede1684

forty legs1697

thousand-feet1704

thousand-legs1807

Meg-many-feet1813

chilopodan1835

chilopod1837

twenty-foot worm-

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Pauropoda > suborder Diplopoda or Chilognatha > member of (millepede)

scolopender1562

millipede1601

scolopendra1608

thousand-feet1704

thousand-legs1807

chilognathan1835

wireworm1838

1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 828/2 Thousand Feet, called Millepie by the Portugueses.

thousand-head kale n. (also thousand-headed kale) a branching variety of cabbage, Brassica oleracea variant fruticosa, cultivated as fodder for sheep or cattle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > cabbage > types of > other types of cabbage

red coleOE

brisoka1340

red colewort?a1500

rape-cole1597

red cabbage1597

loaf-cabbage1727

sugar-loaf1766

drumhead1783

sugar-loaf cabbage1786

Yorkshire cabbage1786

York1823

palm-kale1853

Scotch curlies1855

thousand-head kale1887

cut-and-come-again1888

1887 Times 22 Oct. 8/1 This practice of making thousand-headed kale stand down..on poor land..is likely to come rapidly into favour.

1925 Malden & Nisbet in W. G. R. Paterson Farm Crops II. 191 The Marrow-stem Kale is what is known as a ‘variety-hybrid’. That is, it is the result of crossing two distinct varieties—the kohl-rabi and the Thousandhead Kale, each a variety of Brassica oleracea.

1929 Oldershaw & Porter Brit. Farm Crops v. 235 Thousand-headed kale is a very useful crop to grow both for sheep- and cattle-feed.

1975 Park & Eddowes Crop Husbandry (ed. 2) xiii. 294 Marrow stem kale should be used before the new year followed by the hardier thousand head kale.

thousand island n. [ < Thousand Islands, name of a large group of islands in the St. Lawrence River] used attributively and absol. to designate Russian salad-dressing containing added pieces of garnishing.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > salad dressing > other salad dressings

remoulade1733

French dressing1874

vinaigrette1880

Russian dressing1900

Roquefort dressing1910

Roquefort cheese dressing1911

Roquefort salad dressing1911

thousand island1916

green goddess1933

Roquefort1949

rouille1951

thousand isle1962

Caesar1978

1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 19 July 6/1 (advt.) Mrs. Porter's Thousand Island Salad Dressing, bottle 35¢.

1945 J. L. Marshall Santa Fe 106 For years, Bill Gardner, steward on the Kansas City–Chicago run, handed out a special ‘1001 Dressing’, an improvement on the usual Thousand Island mixture.

1981 Times 2 Mar. 12/5 In a year or two she will be specifying that the thousand island dressing (a pinkish salad cream with bits of vegetables in it) should be low-calorie.

thousand isle n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > salad dressing > other salad dressings

remoulade1733

French dressing1874

vinaigrette1880

Russian dressing1900

Roquefort dressing1910

Roquefort cheese dressing1911

Roquefort salad dressing1911

thousand island1916

green goddess1933

Roquefort1949

rouille1951

thousand isle1962

Caesar1978

1962 Listener 11 Jan. 90/3 It is worth trying to order one of those marvellous green salads unaccompanied by the demand: ‘Roquefort, thousand-isle or French?’

thousand-jacket n. New Zealand = houhere n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > lace-bark

lacewood1803

ribbonwood1865

ribbon tree1866

houhere1879

thousand-jacket1888

lace bark1906

1888 Cassell's Picturesque Austral. III. 210 Toi-toi, supplejack, thousand-jacket, are names of things known well enough to the inhabitants of Napier and Taranaki.

1946 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 55 149 Houhere, a tree (Hoheria populnea), ribbonwood, lace~bark, thousand-jacket. One of the three or four deciduous Maori trees.

thousand-legs n. = thousand-feet n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of

scolopender1562

centipede1601

scolopendra1608

forty-foot1677

millipede1684

forty legs1697

thousand-feet1704

thousand-legs1807

Meg-many-feet1813

chilopodan1835

chilopod1837

twenty-foot worm-

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Pauropoda > suborder Diplopoda or Chilognatha > member of (millepede)

scolopender1562

millipede1601

scolopendra1608

thousand-feet1704

thousand-legs1807

chilognathan1835

wireworm1838

1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. vii. 392 The thousand legs eats and makes them [sc. potatoes] scabby.

1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. vii. 41 The class Diplopoda contains all the millipedes or ‘thousand legs’.

thousand-miler n. slang a dark shirt that does not show the dirt.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other

bloody shirta1586

ruffle shirt1749

ruffled shirt1754

dicky1781

overshirt1805

camise1812

mill tog1821

boiled shirt1853

Crimean shirt1853

Crimea shirt1857

shirtwaist1859

shirt1867

polo shirt1887

zephyr1887

Ghost Shirt1890

Henley1890

negligée shirt1895

turtle-neck1897

rugby shirt1902

bush shirt1909

tunic shirt1918

safari shirt1921

button-down1924

thousand-miler1929

aloha shirt1936

buba1937

zoot shirt1942

Hawaiian shirt1955

sweater-shirt1964

beach shirt1966

kimono shirt1968

dashiki1969

1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 139 Thousand milers, black twill shirts.

1959 Washington Post 8 Oct. c3/3 A thousand-miler is a navy blue shirt which doesn't show the gravy stains and may be worn for days at a time without washing. Slim must have a wardrobe of thousand-milers.

1978 K. Bonfiglioli All Tea in China vii. 86 A ‘thousand-miler’ turned out to be a sort of durable shirt made of black twill; so-called..because it should be washed..after every thousand miles of the voyage.

thousand-year egg n. (also thousand-year-old egg) a Chinese delicacy consisting of a pickled egg that has been kept in earth, lime, and chopped straw for some weeks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > other egg dishes

poachéa1425

meseladea1450

potrona1450

malasadec1450

poached eggc1450

eggs in moonshine?1558

snow1597

fondue1806

Scotch egg1808

soufflé1813

scrabbed eggsa1825

Scotch woodcock1836

egg salad1873

prairie oyster1879

Adam and Eve on a raft1891

Russian egg1891

eggs Benedict1898

huevos rancheros1901

sabayon1906

oeuf en cocotte1909

shakshuka1930

piperade1931

thousand-year egg1961

1961 E.-M. Wong Chinese Cookery v. 36 Everyone has heard of ‘thousand-year-old’ eggs, but in reality these eggs are only a few months old.

1972 K. Lo Chinese Food i. 47 Thousand-Year-Old Egg (which, to be more precise, should be called Pickled Eggs)..can be incorporated into a Chinese breakfast.

1980 E. Behr Getting Even xviii. 208 Seaslugs, jellyfish and thousand-year eggs appeared on the table.

thousand-yearist n. nonce-rendering of chiliast n.

ΚΠ

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xx. vii. 798 The worde [Chiliasts] is greeke, and may bee interpreted, Millenaryes, or Thousand-yere-ists.

Thousand-Year Reich n. [German tausendjähriges Reich] the German Third Reich (1933–45), as a regime envisaged by the Nazis as established for an indefinite period.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > specific regimes > [noun] > in Germany

Reich1762

Reich1875

Third Reich1930

Weimar1932

new order1940

Thousand-Year Reich1946

1934 Times 6 Sept. 12/4 Herr Hitler's proclamation to the rally was read... Herr Hitler declares that ‘there will be no further revolution in Germany for a thousand years.’]

1946 A. Huxley Let. 27 Oct. (1969) 553 When people think of far-off communist Utopias or Thousand-Year Reichs, they are so much dazzled by the beauty of what they see..in the unknowable future, that they are ready to commit any atrocity in the present.

1970 A. Price Labyrinth Makers vi. 89 The Wagnerian last hours of the Thousand Year Reich.

1979 J. Crosby Party of Year xviii. 109 Now that the 1,000-year Reich had crumbled, what else was there?

Derivatives

thousandˈaire n. [after millionaire] one who has a thousand pounds.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > person who has large amount of money

jingle-boya1640

four-millioneer1667

plum1709

millionary1786

millionaire1795

money bag1820

millionista1843

trimillionaire1848

multimillionaire1858

billionaire1861

millioner1865

trillionaire1873

quadrillionairea1876

thousandaire1896

milliardaire1897

multibillionaire1906

zillionaire1926

multi1950

mega-millionaire1968

squillionaire1979

1896 Eclectic Mag. Mar. 350 To prevent their possessor from ever becoming even a thousandaire.

† ˈthousandly adv. Obsolete thousandfold.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adverb] > thousandfold

thousandfolda1225

thousandlyc1450

thousandfoldly1829

c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 4920 Now shalle I the rewarde innoumbrable thovzandly.

Draft additions June 2016

thousand-yard stare n. originally U.S. a vacant or unfocused gaze into the distance (frequently used with reference to war-weary or traumatized soldiers).

ΚΠ

1936 Leatherneck Nov. 63/1 From the looks of some of the fellows (you know—that 1,000 yard stare), we might be able to announce a couple of marriages in our next tete-a-tete.

1944 Marine Corps Gaz. Mar. 47/2 The story is told that after being on this small, isolated spot for several months, its occupants developed what was known as ‘the thousand yard stare’.

1991 A. Sher Indoor Boy (1992) xi. 93 Like those boys in the army who go bush-mad—the thousand-yard stare.

2006 Maclean's 6 Mar. 27/1 Pat Quinn sat at the table with a loosened tie and a thousand-yard stare, apparently weighing the pros and cons of ritual suicide.

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thousand-mile stare n. originally U.S. a vacant or unfocused gaze into the distance; = thousand-yard stare n. at Additions.

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1944 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye Gaz. 25 Feb. 1/7 We've got that thousand-mile stare. Before we hit the southwest Pacific, we carried the army to Kiska and Attu.

1968 R. J. Lifton Death in Life 86 Conditions like the ‘vacuum state’ or ‘thousand-mile stare’ may be thought of as apathy, but are also profound expressions of despair.

2015 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 24 May (Sunday Life section) 15 I yarned with hippies, Vietnam vets and farmers with thousand-mile stares.

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单词	thousand
释义	thousandn.adj. Brit. /ˈθaʊznd/, U.S. /ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/ Forms: Old English–Middle English þusend, Middle English þusent, ( Orm.) þusennd, Middle English þusand, þusund, þousunt, Middle English þousend, Middle English–1500s thousande, Middle English thus(s)-, thos(s)and(e, Middle English þous-, þows-, thous-, thows-, -and(e, -ant(e, -aund, -end, -ent, -ind(e, -ond(e, -ynd, Middle English–1600s thowsand, Middle English þouzand, þowzand, thouzand; Middle English– thousand (modern Scottish thoozan(t). Etymology: Old English þúsend, noun feminine and neuter = Old Frisian thûsend, Old Saxon thûsundig, thûsind (Dutch duizend), Old High German dûsunt (Middle High German tûsent, German tausend), Salfrank. þûschunde, Old Norse þúsund (þúshund, þúshundrað, Swedish tusen, Danish tusind), Gothic þûsundi, noun feminine and neuter. Generally held to be cognate with Lithuanian túkstanti-s, Latvian tūkstoš, tūkstotis, Old Prussian tūsimta (accusative plural tūsimtons), Old Church Slavonic tysąšta, -ęšta, Russian tysjača, Polish tysiac, Czech tisíc, pointing to an original Slavo-Germanic tūssontiā or tussntjā, whence also Old Germanic þūsundi. The first element is considered by many to be an Indo-European tūs meaning ‘multitude, force’; compare Sanskrit tawás ‘strong, force’; as to the rest of the word etymologists differ. The general result is that þūsundi was probably an indefinite term for a ‘great multitude’ (compare Greek μυριάς, -αδ-, in its indefinite, and myriad in its common English use), which was used as the available equivalent of Greek χῑλιάς and Latin mīlle, themselves probably originally indefinite words, there being no general Indo-European word for ‘thousand’. 1. The cardinal numeral equal to ten times one hundred; represented by the symbols 1000 or m (for Latin mīlle), formerly often by m, or ^m, as xxx^m. a. As noun or quasi-noun, with plural. (a) In singular. Usually a thousand, emphatically or precisely one thousand. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > thousand thousand971 M1396 thou1867 971 Blickl. Hom. 119 Nis..nænig mon þe..wite..hwæþer þis þusend sceole beon scyrtre ofer þæt þe lengre. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 110/12 Ciliarcus, þusendes ealdor. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10679 Bi þusund & bi þusend þer feollen [sc. Sexes] æuere in þene grund. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7490 Men and wymmen, many a thousand. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxiii. 1360 Ten hundred makiþ a þousend. 1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iv. 49 A thousande fiue hundred seuentie and nine. 1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling x. §6. 256 A thousand to one they have..some gnawing cares..that defeats their comfort. 1912 N.E.D. at Thousand Mod. Bricks are sold by the thousand. (b) In plural thousands (Old English þúsendu, -o, -a, Middle English -e, -es).In Arithmetic often elliptical for the digits denoting the number of thousands: cf. units, tens, hundreds. ΚΠ c893 tr. Orosius Hist. v. iv. §2 Þider for mid monegum þusendum. OE Beowulf 2195 He..him gesealde seofan þusendo. c1000 Ælfric Joshua vii. 3 Ac twa þusenda oððe þreo læt faran. a1120 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 694 (Laud) Cantwara..him gesealdon xxx þusenda. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 274 Þider in iwenden moni þusunde [c1300 Otho mani þusend]. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 465 Ich habbe..in þan mountes mani þusendes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 19134 Þare was conuertid thusandis [Gött. thousandes] V. c1425 [see sense 1a(c)]. 1543 R. Record Ground of Artes ii. sig. Q.vi Then adde I y^e thousandes together. 1615 W. Mure Misc. Poems xiv. 12 Metamorphos'd his thowsands in milleounes. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 24/2 They amounted in all to some thousands. 1877 H. Spencer in Min. Evid. Copyright Comm. (1878) 258 Now I simply have to print additional thousands as they are demanded. (c) After another numeral the singular is now commonly used as a collective plural. (Cf. dozen n., hundred n. and adj.)But in Old English the plural form was usual: see (b). ΚΠ c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 282 Twegen îas, getitelode ī ī, getacniað twa þusend. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 234 Ich habbe in þane munten monie þusund [c1300 Otho þusendes]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 43 Hire weoren..hund þousunt deade. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1789 Þe brutons sywede after,..& slowe mani þousend. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiv. 31 If he may with ten thousynd go aȝens him that cometh to him with twenty thousynd. c1425 Crafte Nombrynge (E.E.T.S.) 29 In þe 5 place [he schuld betoken] sexty þowsant... In þe 8 place sexty þowsant thowsantes. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xviii. 330 For one that tryumpheth, a hundred thousand are led in captiuitie. 1912 N.E.D. at Thousand Mod. How many followers has he? He claims to have fifty thousand. The hall will seat four thousand. (d) As a noun it takes after it of, representing the Old English genitive plural. Now after a numeral only as a unit of quantity by which things are sold.A thousand of, thousands of, are used partitively as in the case of other numerals. ΚΠ c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. x. §4 On an scip mæge an þusend manna. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. ii. v. §2 Hie acuron endlefan þusend monna. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 334 Ða gehyrde he..sang..manega ðusenda engla. c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 311 Eahta þusend tida. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 35 Moni þusent monne mahte libben fele ȝere mare þenne he do. c1275 Shires & Hund. 58 in Old Eng. Misc. 146 xxvi. þusend hida. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4078 Godes wreche ðor haueð of-slagen xx.iiij. ðhusent of ðagen.c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 540 Many hundrid thousind of soulis han lyued ful vertuoseli.c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xi. 78 What shal I ȝeue þe for all þese þousand of godes?1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) i. sig. Aiv/2 He fedde many thousandes of people. wyth fewe looues of brede.1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 329 Ane thousand, and ma, of fensabill men.1597 S. Finche Let. 18 Feb. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 153 Four loads of flinte..will well save one thousand of bricke.1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ii j The King of Persia with his wife Cæsarea and many thousand of their followers.1657 S. Clarke (title) A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners, held forth in some thousands of examples.1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 52 Twenty Thousand of Bricks.1749 T. Short Gen. Chronol. Hist. Air I. 456 Countless Thousands of Bra Geese by Flights of five or seven Minutes Distance, were continually making to the Southward.1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 51 Thousands of arrobas were..obtained. b. As adjective or quasi-adjective, followed immediately by a plural (or collective) noun. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > thousand thousandc1000 millenary1604 milliary1753 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 458 Iob..wæron eft forgoldene..þusend getyme oxena and þusend assan. a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1101 Rotbert..sceolde..þreo þusend marc seolfres habban. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15510 He fedde fif þusennde menn Wiþþ fife barrliȝ lafess. c1200 Vices & Virt. 115 Mani þusend hali saules. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 8/243 More þane a þousend ȝer. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 465 Þis þousinde wynter & more. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. 672 He brought over the mountaynes a xxx. thousande fyghtinge men. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 66 b Him..that was once worthe three thousande pounde, and is not nowe worthe three grotes. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 2 Manye knightes with seaven thowsand men. 1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) ii. vii. 237 So many thousand Christians so barbarously murdered. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiv. 307 You've lost about a thousand pounds' worth of sketches. 2. a. Often used vaguely or hyperbolically for a large number: cf. hundred n. and adj.So ten thousand, thousands, thousands of thousands, thousand and one. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude sandc825 thousandc1000 un-i-rimeOE legiona1325 fernc1325 multitudec1350 hundred1362 abundancec1384 quantityc1390 sight1390 felec1394 manyheada1400 lastc1405 sortc1475 infinityc1480 multiplie1488 numbers1488 power1489 many1525 flock1535 heapa1547 multitudine1547 sort1548 myriads1555 myriads1559 infinite1563 tot-quot1565 dickera1586 multiplea1595 troop1596 multitudes1598 myriad1611 sea-sands1656 plurality1657 a vast many1695 dozen1734 a good few1756 nation1762 vast1793 a wheen (of)1814 swad1828 lot1833 tribe1833 slew1839 such a many1841 right smart1842 a million and one1856 horde1860 a good several1865 sheaf1865 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 immense1872 dunnamuch1875 telephone number1880 umpty1905 dunnamany1906 skit1913 umpteen1919 zillion1922 gang1928 scrillion1935 jillion1942 900 number1977 gazillion1978 fuckload1984 c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) iii. 5 Ic me nu na ondræde þusendu folces. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1 A Thousent sythis haue I herd men telle That there is Ioye in heuene. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10090 Þe sunn o rightwisnes,..Hir mad a thusand sith sa bright. 1549 M. Coverdale in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ded. sig. +.iii What vayne pylgremages, what offerynges and lyghtes to stockes and stones..with thousandes moe inconueniences. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 37 I give you a thousand thanks. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical v. 49 Some of them [sc. ladies] having Scab'd, or Pimpled Faces, wear a Thousand Patches to hide them. 1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day iii. 63 Ten thousand thousand Fathoms still remain. 1779 Mirror No. 67. ⁋11 You may do good to thousands. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 157 A thousand ridiculous stories were propagated, at his expence. 1821 Ld. Byron Isles of Greece in Don Juan: Canto III 47 And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations;—all were his! 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) II. xxxiii. 239 Of all the thousand and one towns I saw in America, I think Buffalo is the queerest looking. 1839 E. W. Lane (title) The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A new translation from the Arabic, with copious notes. 1842 Dumfries Herald Oct. Clean them from the worms of the thousand-and-one flies that feed on them. 1880 W. S. Gilbert Pirates of Penzance 1 You will find me a wife of a thousand. 1896 S. Baring-Gould Broom-squire 245 Ten thousand parks where deer run, Ten thousand roses in the sun. 1910 W. L. Phelps Ess. Mod. Novelists iii. 63 All the thousand and one details that make up the daily routine of the average person. 1962 J. Wain Strike Father Dead iv. 206 Would I be likely to suggest coming along as your manager if I didn't know a thousand and one ways of making myself useful? b. Phrases: a thousand times, no: certainly not; similarly a thousand times, yes (rare); I believe you, thousands wouldn't (and similar expressions): ambiguous responses to remarks received with scepticism; death of (or by) a thousand cuts: a succession of minor hurts that are cumulatively very serious or annoying; a thousand of bricks: see brick n.¹ and adj.¹ Phrases 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > affirmation and denial > [adverb] > as an emphatic affirmative absolutely1825 rather1836 a thousand times, yes1896 definitely1931 deffo1940 damn straight1964 the mind > language > statement > negation > [adverb] > no > certainly not for nothinglOE not (to do something) for the worlda1375 for foul or fairc1405 not for a moment1785 not on your life1791 not for Joe (Joseph)1844 no siree1845 not much1871 a thousand times, no1896 not on your tintype1900 not for all the tea in China1937 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > scepticism > expressing scepticism [phrase] I believe you, thousands wouldn't1926 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > other injuries > succession of death of (or by) a thousand cuts1966 1896 ‘M. Rutherford’ Clara Hopgood v. 57 ‘No,’ said Madge, ‘a thousand times no.’ 1897 H. James Spoils of Poynton xxii. 279 A thousand times yes—her choice should know no scruple. 1926 R. H. Mottram Crime at Vanderlynden's 46 ‘I did twelve months in the line, as a platoon commander. How long did you do that?’ ‘Twelve months about!’ ‘I believe you where thousands wouldn't.’ 1932 A. Christie Peril at End House xvii. 199 Am I sure, myself, about anything at all? No, no—a thousand times, no. 1966 tr. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung xxvii. 258 ‘He who is not afraid of death by a thousand cuts dares to unhorse the emperor’—this is the indomitable spirit needed in our struggle to build socialism and communism. 1968 ‘C. Aird’ Henrietta Who? x. 97 ‘I don't even know..what I don't know.’ Bill Thorpe nodded comprehendingly. ‘I follow you—though thousands wouldn't.’ 1974 D. Seaman Bomb that could Lip-read ix. 73 The head of the rocket..chips off tiny fragments of steel... The poor buggers who get in the way die the death of a thousand cuts. 1980 G. Greene Dr. Fischer vii. 39 It had to be the death of a thousand cuts. He told her he forgave her..but he told her also that he could never forget her betrayal. 1980 P. Moyes Angel Death xx. 255 I can believe it. Thousands wouldn't. 1981 P. Turnbull Deep & Crisp & Even vii. 116 ‘Don't you think I'm too old?’ ‘No, a thousand times, no!’ 1982 P. Inchbald Sweet Short Grass xx. 172 Oh, Franco! Yes! A thousand times yes! 3. Elliptical uses. a. A thousand of some weight, measure, or quantity; e.g. acres, pounds, cubic feet, years, pieces, packages, etc. according to the nature of the commodity, etc. ΚΠ a900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 648 (Parker MS.) Her Cenwalh gesalde Cuþrede his mæge iii þusendo londes be Æsces dune. c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) cxviii[i]. 72 Me is micle betere,..þonne mon me geofe geara ðusende goldes and seolfres. a1300 Early Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (Thornton) cxviii[i]. 72 Ouer thousandes ofe siluer ore golde. 1443 Acts Privy Counc. (1835) V. 281 To delivere Johan Dawnsonn maister of þordenances of my Lorde of Somerset iiij^ml salpetre iij^ml sulphure. 1482 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 169 Of the thousand irne ij s. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 21 Instead of looking twenty, he looked a thousand. 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. lxi. 512 Mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. 1884 Sat. Rev. 7 June 758/1 He dines at 6, plays [billiards] a thousand-up by gaslight. 1896 G. B. Shaw Let. 15 Feb. (1965) I. 597 Men who rattle off their copy at anything from 20/- to 40/- a thousand. 1901 Daily Express 28 Feb. 4/6 The price of gas in London in 1876 was 3s. 9d. per thousand. 1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence iii. 14 We would talk..of editors and the sort of contributions they welcomed, how much they paid a thousand, and whether they paid promptly or otherwise. b. A thousand pounds sterling; (U.S.), a thousand dollars. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a thousand pounds thousand1567 grand1946 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a thousand dollars grand1915 thousand1919 yard1926 G1928 dime1958 1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iii. iv. f. 99 A merchaunt mannes compter: y^t is to day wourth thousands. 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 3 Come downe you bishopps from your thousands, and content you with your hundreds. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. v, in Wks. I. 578 A man of two thousand a yeere. View more context for this quotation 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. xiv. 209 A clear rental of five-and-twenty thousand per annum. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. ix. 199 A merchant on 'Change,..having lost his thousands, embarks a few guineas upon the next ship. 1919 E. O'Neill Moon of Caribbees 163 Smith said he would give two thousand cash if I would sell the place to him. 1942 Amer. Mercury July 85 He might confidence Sweet Back out of a thousand on a plate. †4. As ordinal: = thousandth adj. and n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > thousand > a thousandth thousandc1400 thousandth part1561 millesm1635 millesimal1719 thousandth1793 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > thousand > thousandth thousandc1400 thousandth1552 millesimal1685 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvi. 74 He knew noȝt þe thowsand parte of his gude. 14.. Tundale's Vis. 1923 (Edinb.) Not by an hvndryþe þowsand part. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 43 Breake but a part of the thousand part of a minute in the affairs of loue. View more context for this quotation 1680 N. Lee Cæsar Borgia Ep. Ded. sig. A3 My best Merits are not the ten thousand part of his smallest labours. Compounds C1. Forming attributive compounds with a noun, as thousand-acre, thousand-dollar, thousand-guinea, thousand-mile, thousand-pound, thousand-round, thousand-year (hence thousand-year-long, thousand-year-old, etc.). thousand-acre adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [adjective] > of specific number of acres forty-acre1742 thousand-acre1895 1895 Daily News 30 Nov. 3/4 The attempt to turn England into a rural arcadia of thousand acre farms. thousand-guinea adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > specific values twopenny1532 sixpenny1592 fourpenny1597 threepenny1627 ninepenny1632 ten-pound1673 two-bit1802 four-figure1842 million-dollar1854 two-cent1859 thousand-guinea1894 thruppence1895 five-figure1971 six-figure1971 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. 111 Princes..who pay them thousand-guinea fees. thousand-mile adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [adjective] > of a thousand miles thousand-mile1875 1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Apr. 450/1 The thousand-mile wall of dense forest. thousand-pound adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective] > weighing specific amount scrupular1656 sextulary1657 semuncial1887 thousand-pound1898 multi-kilo1971 1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 June 5/1 A thousand-pound projectile..tore a gaping hole in the emplacement. 1902 London Mag. June 484/1 Accused of systematically uttering forged Bank of England thousand-pound notes. thousand-year-long adj. ΚΠ 1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 45 So I fled with steps uncertain On a thousand-year long race. C2. Parasynthetic, as thousand-eyed (having a thousand eyes), thousand-footed, thousand-handed, thousand-headed, thousand-hued, thousand-petalled, thousand-sided, thousand-souled, thousand-voiced, etc., adjs. thousand-eyed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > having > specific number one-eyedOE monoculusc1450 Polyphemian1602 monoculate1618 monocular1640 unocular1653 monoculous1656 Polyphemous1695 monoptical1821 Polyphemic1837 triocular1844 monophthalmic1857 monops1857 two-eyed1864 thousand-eyed1871 1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 171 There the thousand-eyed Lord..is attended by thousands of houris. 1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 209 The thousand-eyed is a common epithet of Indra. thousand-footed adj. ΚΠ 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly May 880/2 To take shelter..under one of the thousand-footed bridges. thousand-handed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [adjective] > having one-handedc1225 handed1613 manual1646 bimanous1832 two-handed1847 thousand-handed1870 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 145 This thousand-handed art. † thousand-headed adj. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [adjective] > having many heads or faces triple-headed1581 two-headed1596 thousand-headed1599 polycephalous1659 septi-fronteda1708 three-headed1905 1599 J. Sylvester tr. J. Du Nesme Miracle Peace in Fraunce 29 Thou thousand-headed head-les Monster-most. thousand-hued adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > many colours all-coloured1605 multicolorate1651 polychrome1819 polychromic1825 multicoloured1845 polychromatic1848 thousand-hued1852 polychromed1857 polychromous1880 multicolour1881 polychromatous1889 multiple-colour1899 multi1970 panchromatic1971 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 490 Fluttering its wings in lightnings thousand-hued. thousand-petalled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > of or having petals foliaceous1658 monopetalous1687 pentapetalous1687 polypetalous1687 hose-in-hose1688 monopetalose1693 pentapetalose1693 tetrapetalose1694 tetrapetalous1697 tripetalose1698 tripetalous1704 hexapetalous1707 petalous1719 petaloid1720 planipetalous1730 petaline1783 petaliform1788 petalled1793 polypetal1803 hexapetaloid1813 hexapetaloideous1830 tripetaloid1830 tripetaloideous1830 unipetalous1831 petaliferous1847 macropetalous1857 sympetalous1870 apopetalous1875 anisopetalous1880 petally1888 thread-petalled1899 thousand-petalled1951 decapetalous- synpetalous- 1951 L. MacNeice tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust ii. ii. 204 But here at Pharsalus was fought a master model To prove how might opposes greater might and tears To shreds the lovely thousand-petalled wreath of freedom. 1970 Times 10 Mar. 17/2 (advt.) A hitherto unrecorded Baccarat ‘thousand-petalled’ rose weight. thousand-sided adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > with nine or more sides or angles decagonal1571 thousand-sided1704 nonagon1754 dodecagonal1854 tridecilateral1882 1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. ix. 387 Four, five, or a thousand-sided figures..are capable of a greater number of relations..than simple triangles are. thousand-souled adj. ΚΠ 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vi. 574 Coleridge has most felicitously applied to him a Greek epithet..μυριόνους, the thousand-souled Shakspeare. thousand-voiced adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [adjective] > vocal sound > sound of many thousand-voiced1898 1898 Westm. Gaz. 2 Sept. 5/1 Amidst the thousand-voiced tumult. C3. thousand-feet n. a millepede or centipede. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of scolopender1562 centipede1601 scolopendra1608 forty-foot1677 millipede1684 forty legs1697 thousand-feet1704 thousand-legs1807 Meg-many-feet1813 chilopodan1835 chilopod1837 twenty-foot worm- the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Pauropoda > suborder Diplopoda or Chilognatha > member of (millepede) scolopender1562 millipede1601 scolopendra1608 thousand-feet1704 thousand-legs1807 chilognathan1835 wireworm1838 1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 828/2 Thousand Feet, called Millepie by the Portugueses. thousand-head kale n. (also thousand-headed kale) a branching variety of cabbage, Brassica oleracea variant fruticosa, cultivated as fodder for sheep or cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > cabbage > types of > other types of cabbage red coleOE brisoka1340 red colewort?a1500 rape-cole1597 red cabbage1597 loaf-cabbage1727 sugar-loaf1766 drumhead1783 sugar-loaf cabbage1786 Yorkshire cabbage1786 York1823 palm-kale1853 Scotch curlies1855 thousand-head kale1887 cut-and-come-again1888 1887 Times 22 Oct. 8/1 This practice of making thousand-headed kale stand down..on poor land..is likely to come rapidly into favour. 1925 Malden & Nisbet in W. G. R. Paterson Farm Crops II. 191 The Marrow-stem Kale is what is known as a ‘variety-hybrid’. That is, it is the result of crossing two distinct varieties—the kohl-rabi and the Thousandhead Kale, each a variety of Brassica oleracea. 1929 Oldershaw & Porter Brit. Farm Crops v. 235 Thousand-headed kale is a very useful crop to grow both for sheep- and cattle-feed. 1975 Park & Eddowes Crop Husbandry (ed. 2) xiii. 294 Marrow stem kale should be used before the new year followed by the hardier thousand head kale. thousand island n. [ < Thousand Islands, name of a large group of islands in the St. Lawrence River] used attributively and absol. to designate Russian salad-dressing containing added pieces of garnishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > salad dressing > other salad dressings remoulade1733 French dressing1874 vinaigrette1880 Russian dressing1900 Roquefort dressing1910 Roquefort cheese dressing1911 Roquefort salad dressing1911 thousand island1916 green goddess1933 Roquefort1949 rouille1951 thousand isle1962 Caesar1978 1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 19 July 6/1 (advt.) Mrs. Porter's Thousand Island Salad Dressing, bottle 35¢. 1945 J. L. Marshall Santa Fe 106 For years, Bill Gardner, steward on the Kansas City–Chicago run, handed out a special ‘1001 Dressing’, an improvement on the usual Thousand Island mixture. 1981 Times 2 Mar. 12/5 In a year or two she will be specifying that the thousand island dressing (a pinkish salad cream with bits of vegetables in it) should be low-calorie. thousand isle n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > salad dressing > other salad dressings remoulade1733 French dressing1874 vinaigrette1880 Russian dressing1900 Roquefort dressing1910 Roquefort cheese dressing1911 Roquefort salad dressing1911 thousand island1916 green goddess1933 Roquefort1949 rouille1951 thousand isle1962 Caesar1978 1962 Listener 11 Jan. 90/3 It is worth trying to order one of those marvellous green salads unaccompanied by the demand: ‘Roquefort, thousand-isle or French?’ thousand-jacket n. New Zealand = houhere n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > lace-bark lacewood1803 ribbonwood1865 ribbon tree1866 houhere1879 thousand-jacket1888 lace bark1906 1888 Cassell's Picturesque Austral. III. 210 Toi-toi, supplejack, thousand-jacket, are names of things known well enough to the inhabitants of Napier and Taranaki. 1946 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 55 149 Houhere, a tree (Hoheria populnea), ribbonwood, lace~bark, thousand-jacket. One of the three or four deciduous Maori trees. thousand-legs n. = thousand-feet n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of scolopender1562 centipede1601 scolopendra1608 forty-foot1677 millipede1684 forty legs1697 thousand-feet1704 thousand-legs1807 Meg-many-feet1813 chilopodan1835 chilopod1837 twenty-foot worm- the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Pauropoda > suborder Diplopoda or Chilognatha > member of (millepede) scolopender1562 millipede1601 scolopendra1608 thousand-feet1704 thousand-legs1807 chilognathan1835 wireworm1838 1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. vii. 392 The thousand legs eats and makes them [sc. potatoes] scabby. 1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. vii. 41 The class Diplopoda contains all the millipedes or ‘thousand legs’. thousand-miler n. slang a dark shirt that does not show the dirt. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other bloody shirta1586 ruffle shirt1749 ruffled shirt1754 dicky1781 overshirt1805 camise1812 mill tog1821 boiled shirt1853 Crimean shirt1853 Crimea shirt1857 shirtwaist1859 shirt1867 polo shirt1887 zephyr1887 Ghost Shirt1890 Henley1890 negligée shirt1895 turtle-neck1897 rugby shirt1902 bush shirt1909 tunic shirt1918 safari shirt1921 button-down1924 thousand-miler1929 aloha shirt1936 buba1937 zoot shirt1942 Hawaiian shirt1955 sweater-shirt1964 beach shirt1966 kimono shirt1968 dashiki1969 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 139 Thousand milers, black twill shirts. 1959 Washington Post 8 Oct. c3/3 A thousand-miler is a navy blue shirt which doesn't show the gravy stains and may be worn for days at a time without washing. Slim must have a wardrobe of thousand-milers. 1978 K. Bonfiglioli All Tea in China vii. 86 A ‘thousand-miler’ turned out to be a sort of durable shirt made of black twill; so-called..because it should be washed..after every thousand miles of the voyage. thousand-year egg n. (also thousand-year-old egg) a Chinese delicacy consisting of a pickled egg that has been kept in earth, lime, and chopped straw for some weeks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > other egg dishes poachéa1425 meseladea1450 potrona1450 malasadec1450 poached eggc1450 eggs in moonshine?1558 snow1597 fondue1806 Scotch egg1808 soufflé1813 scrabbed eggsa1825 Scotch woodcock1836 egg salad1873 prairie oyster1879 Adam and Eve on a raft1891 Russian egg1891 eggs Benedict1898 huevos rancheros1901 sabayon1906 oeuf en cocotte1909 shakshuka1930 piperade1931 thousand-year egg1961 1961 E.-M. Wong Chinese Cookery v. 36 Everyone has heard of ‘thousand-year-old’ eggs, but in reality these eggs are only a few months old. 1972 K. Lo Chinese Food i. 47 Thousand-Year-Old Egg (which, to be more precise, should be called Pickled Eggs)..can be incorporated into a Chinese breakfast. 1980 E. Behr Getting Even xviii. 208 Seaslugs, jellyfish and thousand-year eggs appeared on the table. thousand-yearist n. nonce-rendering of chiliast n. ΚΠ 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xx. vii. 798 The worde [Chiliasts] is greeke, and may bee interpreted, Millenaryes, or Thousand-yere-ists. Thousand-Year Reich n. [German tausendjähriges Reich] the German Third Reich (1933–45), as a regime envisaged by the Nazis as established for an indefinite period. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > specific regimes > [noun] > in Germany Reich1762 Reich1875 Third Reich1930 Weimar1932 new order1940 Thousand-Year Reich1946 1934 Times 6 Sept. 12/4 Herr Hitler's proclamation to the rally was read... Herr Hitler declares that ‘there will be no further revolution in Germany for a thousand years.’] 1946 A. Huxley Let. 27 Oct. (1969) 553 When people think of far-off communist Utopias or Thousand-Year Reichs, they are so much dazzled by the beauty of what they see..in the unknowable future, that they are ready to commit any atrocity in the present. 1970 A. Price Labyrinth Makers vi. 89 The Wagnerian last hours of the Thousand Year Reich. 1979 J. Crosby Party of Year xviii. 109 Now that the 1,000-year Reich had crumbled, what else was there? Derivatives thousandˈaire n. [after millionaire] one who has a thousand pounds.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > person who has large amount of money jingle-boya1640 four-millioneer1667 plum1709 millionary1786 millionaire1795 money bag1820 millionista1843 trimillionaire1848 multimillionaire1858 billionaire1861 millioner1865 trillionaire1873 quadrillionairea1876 thousandaire1896 milliardaire1897 multibillionaire1906 zillionaire1926 multi1950 mega-millionaire1968 squillionaire1979 1896 Eclectic Mag. Mar. 350 To prevent their possessor from ever becoming even a thousandaire. † ˈthousandly adv. Obsolete thousandfold. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adverb] > thousandfold thousandfolda1225 thousandlyc1450 thousandfoldly1829 c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 4920 Now shalle I the rewarde innoumbrable thovzandly. Draft additions June 2016 thousand-yard stare n. originally U.S. a vacant or unfocused gaze into the distance (frequently used with reference to war-weary or traumatized soldiers). ΚΠ 1936 Leatherneck Nov. 63/1 From the looks of some of the fellows (you know—that 1,000 yard stare), we might be able to announce a couple of marriages in our next tete-a-tete. 1944 Marine Corps Gaz. Mar. 47/2 The story is told that after being on this small, isolated spot for several months, its occupants developed what was known as ‘the thousand yard stare’. 1991 A. Sher Indoor Boy (1992) xi. 93 Like those boys in the army who go bush-mad—the thousand-yard stare. 2006 Maclean's 6 Mar. 27/1 Pat Quinn sat at the table with a loosened tie and a thousand-yard stare, apparently weighing the pros and cons of ritual suicide. Draft additions June 2016 thousand-mile stare n. originally U.S. a vacant or unfocused gaze into the distance; = thousand-yard stare n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1944 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye Gaz. 25 Feb. 1/7 We've got that thousand-mile stare. Before we hit the southwest Pacific, we carried the army to Kiska and Attu. 1968 R. J. Lifton Death in Life 86 Conditions like the ‘vacuum state’ or ‘thousand-mile stare’ may be thought of as apathy, but are also profound expressions of despair. 2015 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 24 May (Sunday Life section) 15 I yarned with hippies, Vietnam vets and farmers with thousand-mile stares. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c893
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