English Explanatory Dictionary

thousand

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)

Pronunciation

/ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/ /ˈθuːz(ə)nd/ thou′zənd /ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/ [ˈθaʊ̯zn̩d] Thousand.wav

Word forms

thousand thousands 1000 M kilo- thousan'

Etymology

From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).

Synonyms

nillion illion one thousand one nillion one illion a thousand a nillion an illion ten hundred

Derived words

one thousand one thousand and one thousand and one thousand one two thousand three thousand four thousand five thousand six thousand seven thousand eight thousand nine thousand ten thousand one hundred thousand hundred thousand thousand million a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step an image is worth a thousand words a picture is worth a thousand words a picture paints a thousand words bat a thousand bat one thousand death by a thousand cuts death by a thousand paper cuts die a thousand deaths hundreds and thousands land of a thousand hills let a thousand flowers bloom long thousand mother of thousands over nine thousand sixty-four thousand dollar question smile a thousand smiles the city of a thousand windows thousandaire tenthousandaire thousandfold thousand-headed cabbage Thousand Islands thousand-leaf thousand-legged worm thousand-legger thousand-legs thousand-mile stare thousand pardons thousandsome thousandth thousand-yard stare thousand yard stare thousand-year egg thousand-year-old egg two thousand and late upper ten thousand yearthousand
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