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thousand
[ thou-zuhnd ]
noun
- 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.
thousand
/ ˈθʊəԻ /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 See also number
- 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
determiner
- amounting to a thousand
a thousand ships
- ( as pronoun )
a thousand is hardly enough
- amounting to 1000 times a particular scientific unit
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Origin of thousand1
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Idioms and Phrases
see bat a thousand ; by the dozen (thousand) ; one in a million (thousand) ; picture is worth a thousand words .Example Sentences
Mrs Meitiner said she and her neighbours have heard stories of other residents in the village paying thousands to replace pipework, only for the problem with their water pressure to persist.
Ahead of COP, there has been criticism of Brazil from conservationists for cutting down tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest to build a new four-lane highway in preparation for the climate summit.
Israel responded with air strikes on southern Lebanon, and tens of thousands of people were forced to flee on both sides of the border.
In the near term, economists say tariffs will disrupt supply chains, shrink the global economy and increase costs for the average American family by thousands of dollars annually.
Prosecutors said the musician’s since-deleted post “quickly went viral,” garnering more than 2 million views and “thousands” of comments and retweets, many allegedly including “direct threats” to the witness and their family.
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What doesthousand mean?
A thousand is a number equal to 10 times 100. In numerals, it’s 1,000 or 1000.
The word thousand is almost always preceded by the word a (as in a thousand, which means the same thing as 1,000) or by another number, as in two thousand (2,000), ten thousand (10,000), or nine hundred ninety-nine thousand (999,000).
You wouldn’t say “I have thousand dollars”—you would say “I have a thousand dollars” or “I have one thousand DZ.”
In the context of math, the range of numbers between 1,000 and 999,999 is called the thousands (just as the range between 100 and 999 is called the hundreds).
In general, the plural form thousands typically refers to a large but unspecified number or amount somewhere in the thousands, as in The repairs will cost thousands of dollars. Generally, this means between 2,000 and 9,999. The term tens of thousands could be used for a higher amount (typically between 10,000 and 99,999). The phrase the thousands can also be used to refer to a large number or amount without giving the exact total, as in I don’t know how many people were at the concert, but it had to be in the thousands.
Thousand and thousands are also often used to exaggerate the number or amount of something, as in I heard about a thousand excuses from my students today or I have thousands of things I need to get done.
In Roman numerals, the number one thousand is represented by the letter M.
Example: There must have been a thousand people playing in the park today.
Where doesthousand come from?
The first records of the word thousand come from before the year 900. It comes from the Old English ٳūԻ.
A thousand is what we call a nice, round number—which basically means it ends in 0. We use round numbers like 100 and 1,000 in estimates instead of giving more specific amounts. This means that a thousand is a very commonly used word. It’s also commonly used in exaggerated amounts, as in I have like a thousand text messages. However, when people really want to exaggerate, they usually go bigger, like eighty billion.
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What are some other forms related to thousand?
- thousands (plural)
- thousandth (adjective, noun)
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How isthousand used in real life?
Thousand is very commonly used in all kinds of contexts. It’s often used in exaggerations about how much of something there is.
More than a thousand people attended our Missouri chapter meeting last night.
To attend a meeting in your community, text READY to 64433.
— Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand)
On Spotify, if your music ranks highly for a generic search term like "relaxing" or "white noise," you can accumulate enough listens to steadily make hundreds, in some cases thousands, of dollars a month with minimal effort.
— OneZero (@ozm)
You can apologize a thousand times, but if you don't change your actions, your words are meaningless
— Boonaa Mohammed (@boonaamohammed)
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Is thousand used correctly in the following sentence?
I ordered a pack of a thousand so we wouldn’t run out.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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