thousand one

English

Alternative forms

• (US) thousand one, one thousand one, a thousand one
• (UK) thousand and one, one thousand and one, a thousand and one
• Arabic numerals: 1001. Roman numerals: MI

Numeral

thousand one

1. (US) One thousand plus one.
2. (informal) The ordinality of an element whose predecessor is thousandth; usually called thousand-first (US) or thousand-and-first (UK) but sometimes number thousand one (US) or number thousand and one (UK).
3. (informal) A great number.

   I have a thousand and one things to do today.

Translations

one thousand plus one

• French: mille un (fr)
• Italian: mille uno (it)

• Malay: seribu satu (ms)
• Navajo: tʼááłáhádí mííl tʼááłáʼí

thousand-first

• French: mille et unième (fr) (for things in a sequence), mille un (fr)

• Italian: millunesimo (it) (for things in a sequence), mille uno (it)

great number

• French: mille et un (fr) m, mille et une (fr) f

See also

• Last: thousand. Next: thousand two

Anagrams

• one thousand