thousand
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Arabic numerals: 1000 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: M
- ISO prefix: kilo-
- Exponential notation: 103
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”). Cognate with Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
thousand (plural thousands)
- (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103
- The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
- Many thousands of people came to the conference.
Usage notes[edit]
Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine, the word thousand is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral.
- a thousand men / one thousand men / the thousand men
- compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men
- compare ten men / the ten men
Thousand can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take -s when preceded by a determiner.
- two thousand men / some thousand men
- thousands of men / dozens of thousands of men
Synonyms[edit]
- (numerical): a thousand, one thousand
- For symbolic forms of this entry, see 1000.
Derived terms[edit]
- hundreds and thousands, mother of thousands, Thousand Islands, thousandfold, thousandth, thousandaire
See also[edit]
Translations[edit]
cardinal number 1000
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Statistics[edit]
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Most common English words before 1923: king · nature · answered · #363: thousand · looking · John · hour
