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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.
Origin of thousand before 900; Middle English; Old English thūsend; cognate with Dutch duizend, Old High German dūsunt, Old Norse thūsund, Gothic thūsindi
Words nearby thousand thought-out, thought police, thought reading, thought transference, thoughtway, thousand , Thousand and One Nights, thousand days, thousandfold, Thousand Guineas, Thousand Island
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Example sentences from the Web for thousand The tens of thousand s of pages of documents were enough to overwhelm the news cycle anyway.
Why security experts are braced for the next election hack-and-leak | Bobbie Johnson| September 29, 2020| MIT Technology Review
The advantage of an LEO constellation is that the signals can be a thousand times stronger than GPS.
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites could make US Army navigation hard to jam | Niall Firth| September 28, 2020| MIT Technology Review
Rather, it’s more a case of a death by a thousand cuts, with multiple measures degrading the app’s functionality and making it harder to use.
Americans won’t be able to download TikTok or WeChat from Sunday | Charlotte Jee| September 18, 2020| MIT Technology Review
The new results suggest that Initial Upper Paleolithic tools were made for only a few thousand years.
This cave hosted the oldest known human remains in Europe | Bruce Bower| June 12, 2020| Science News For Students
Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art | Alec Kubas-Meyer| January 2, 2015| DAILY BEAST
One person who dialed in has “a pretty big Twitter following,” Goff said, “several thousand .”
‘Ready for Romney’ Is Amateur Hour | Tim Mak| December 23, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Two years into an Arctic expedition, they were forced to abandon ship a thousand miles north of Siberia.
The Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 | William O’Connor| December 14, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The technician on the other end is probably in a laboratory a thousand miles away.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman| December 13, 2014| DAILY BEAST
In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.
How Havel Inspired the Velvet Revolution | Michael Zantovsky| December 6, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The mother's mood may be read at a glance: she is showing in one of a thousand tender ways her motherly affection for her child.
The Madonna in Art | Estelle M. Hurll
My wife refuses to write to you for another thousand , and she must take the consequences.
The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales | Hannah More
I turned it a thousand ways, and examined it in every point of view.
Caleb Williams | William Godwin
This is precisely the predicament in which many thousand people are today.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses | M. G. Kains
Each of these is the Mecca of a thousand desires, and faces beam with pleasure when they reappear.
The Vitalized School | Francis B. Pearson
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British Dictionary definitions for thousand noun the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 1000, 10³, M, etc, representing this number
(often plural) a very large but unspecified number, amount, or quantity they are thousands of miles away
(plural) the numbers 2000–9999 the 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 zeros in 4760, 4 is in the thousand's place
SEE MORE SEE LESS determiner amounting to a thousand a 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 see bat a thousand; by the dozen (thousand); one in a million (thousand); picture is worth a thousand words.
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Words related to thousand millenarian, millenary, millennium, chiliad, chiliastic, millennial, millesimal