thousandthou‧sand /ˈθaʊzənd/ ●●● W3 number (plural thousand or thousands) 
a journey of almost a thousand milestwo/three/four etc thousand five thousand dollars The company employs thirty thousand people.2an extremely large number of things or peoplea thousand I’ve been this route a thousand times before.thousands of There are thousands of things I want to do.—thousandth adjective: the thousandth anniversary of the founding of the city—thousandth noun [countable]
WORD ORIGINthousand
Origin:
Old English thusendEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Because everyone was in such a good mood, he must have collected several thousand francs.
- How do I decide rationally when I hear a thousand different voices screaming contradictory advice?
- It sold ten thousand copies and was followed by my Hindu View of Art.
- It was the next night after about one hundred and thirty thousand people in Dresden would die.
- It would cost the branch a few thousand dollars to rectify.
- The grand enslavement began in the Middle East, with rye, thirteen thousand years ago.
- The scientists had drilled nearly 600 feet into the ocean bottom in over ten thousand feet of water.
- The second night the marchers showed up, the neighborhood mob grew to almost a thousand.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY five thousand dollars The company employs thirty thousand people.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES military equipment worth many millions of dollars The bill came to several hundred pounds.
five thousand dollars The company employs thirty thousand people. (=in very large numbers) People flocked in their thousands to greet their new princess.
People flocked in their thousands to greet their new princess. military equipment worth many millions of dollars The bill came to several hundred pounds.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► be batting a thousand► a cool million/hundred thousand etc
1the number 1,000: - All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And, of course, the cost - that ran into thousands.
- Last night, it was feared that the cost of the disaster could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
- Others take a proportion of the cost of the house and, consequently, the fee can run into thousands.
- Potentially the number of claims could run into thousands: the inventory covers only part of the national collections.
- The number of deaths could run into hundreds.
- There are certainly hundreds of people who could be involved and the number could even run into thousands.
- These could run into thousands of pounds is a helicopter is involved.
a journey of almost a thousand milestwo/three/four etc thousand five thousand dollars The company employs thirty thousand people.2an extremely large number of things or peoplea thousand I’ve been this route a thousand times before.thousands of There are thousands of things I want to do.—thousandth adjective: the thousandth anniversary of the founding of the city—thousandth noun [countable]