thousandfold
English
Etymology
From Middle English thusendfold, thusendfeld, from Old English þūsendfeald, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz, corresponding to thousand + -fold. Cognate with Dutch duizendvoud, duizendvoudig, German tausendfältig, Danish tusindfold, Swedish tusendfalt, tusendfaltig, Icelandic þúsundfalt.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
thousandfold (not comparable)
- Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.
- The changes to the algorithm resulted in a thousandfold increase in efficiency, earning the engineer a small brass plaque.
- Having one thousand parts or members.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
Translations
Repeated a thousand times
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Adverb
thousandfold (not comparable)
- By a factor of a thousand.
Translations
By a factor of a thousand
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