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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.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English thūsend; cognate with Dutch duizend, Old High German dūsunt, Old Norse thūsund, Gothic thūsindi

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Example Sentences

Several thousand of the best job opportunities in the academic world, updated daily.

It has several thousand fighters, with nothing heavier than anti-aircraft guns mounted on pickup trucks.

The data suggest that several thousand tons of silver were produced in pre-Inca times.

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Several thousand of the best job opportunities in the academic world, updated daily.

It has several thousand fighters, with nothing heavier than anti-aircraft guns mounted on pickup trucks.

The data suggest that several thousand tons of silver were produced in pre-Inca times.

For more than a decade, scientists have known of about a thousand genes that code for odorant, or chemical.

Two thousand years ago, it was the capital of a powerful trading empire.

Just when you think you're getting somewhere, a thousand new wonders sprout up behind you.

We took these music fans' portraits for six seconds, which at a thousand frames ends up being four minutes.

Retention is the issue that has led to the creation of a thousand campus task forces.

But within a few thousand years of the arrival of modern humans in the continent, he was extinct.

Ten thousand years ago hunters and gatherers ate bugs to survive.

Just as a picture is worth a thousand words, our faces can express a wealth of information.

The city was burned, the inhabitants killed or exiled, and much of the heritage of the past thousand years was lost.

See a gallery of top picks for the system that launched a thousand games.

Colleges that until recently paid a few thousand dollars a year for the companies' products.

Devices which are both, such as oscillating tubes, can set you back several thousand dollars.

Some scientists think fewer than a thousand individuals may remain.

Twenty thousand soldiers and many elephants are lost.

And it was even more dangerous a thousand years ago.

One thousand more attempt to take their own lives every month.

Football games with a hundred thousand fans in the stands.

What you learn from reading a book beats what you learn from traveling ten thousand miles.

About one in a thousand storms becomes a supercell, and one in five or six supercells spawns off a tornado.

It's true that pictures can be worth a thousand words.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, it's also sometimes worth a few words of explanation.

American snipers are already deadly accurate, pinpointing targets from a thousand meters away and more.

Gaddafi has claimed the water will last a thousand years at the present pumping rate.

So several hundred thousand scavengers are still at work.

Biologists estimate that there are fewer than a thousand of the long-tailed.

Estimates suggest that several thousand people worldwide wish to get rid of a normal healthy limb.

But the formula for deep ocean blue is rare, occurring in only one out of every several hundred thousand diamonds.

Given that a year's worth of textbooks can run a thousand bucks, it's not surprising that textbook piracy is up.

There are said to be several thousand living on the streets around there.

The list runs from conflicts that claimed a thousand or so lives to the devastation of the two world wars.

Previous studies have looked only at a thousand or so genetic markers and compared them between three or four populations.

From her there were directly descended one thousand two hundred persons.

Polymer fronds a few thousand nanometers long wrap around even tinier plymer spheres.

Online advertisers pay the host site a rate based on every thousand times its ad is seen.

Losing a few thousand is nothing in this market, but it depends on where you are located.

But first they must pay a few thousand dollars-to cover expenses, you understand.

Total travel time to our planet: a mere hundred thousand years.

In essence, a picture might be worth more than a thousand milligrams.

Aristotle suggested more than two thousand years ago that the hare-the rabbit's relative-could do this:.

The manufacturers claim to have studied well over ten thousand players at various levels.

Four thousand on my home owners, four thousand on my university's policy, and one thousand on my travel insurance policy.

Only one in a thousand is educated beyond the secondary stage.

The site was near the submerged ancient coastline, flooded several thousand years ago.

And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice".

Their stench has been compared to the scent of a thousand dead elephants rotting in the sun.

Today, one in every thousand bits stored in a flash memory comes out wrong when the memory is read.

They accept pets, and have several one bedrooms in nice areas well under a thousand.

The clank, whirr and whine of a thousand robots cutting metal, injecting plastic and emptying moulds is no more.

The country has more than a thousand ancient tribes.

You've practiced your big presentation a thousand times.

Persians brought the game here a thousand years ago, and it has been favored by prince and peasant ever since.

The few thousand copies printed suddenly went from novelties to must-have collectors' items.

Reform quickly or be reformed perforce by the death of a thousand cuts.

Those devices that are both, such as oscillating tubes, can set you back several thousand dollars.

Given the fluctuation of sea levels in the past few hundred thousand years, that is no surprise.

The cistern was built more than a thousand years ago with pieces of already-ancient temples and churches.

For a couple of thousand years, smokers have sought a quick concentration boost by firing up a cigarette.

And a few thousand bankers and traders who were raised to be irresponsible.

The first, called a pump, lasts several thousand attoseconds.

Three things must be accomplished to colonize mars beyond perhaps a few thousand people.

It was dawn, and the trees were erupting with the songs of a thousand birds.

Every year they bring in a thousand or so bands who are looking to get heard.

These buy and issue mortgages, which they then securitise by bundling together by the thousand and selling in the debt markets.

As the old saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles starts with one step.

Eighty thousand copies of the novel sold in the two countries.

Companies dissolve into a thousand small initiatives rather than focusing on a few big problems.

In a few thousand years it may even make a difference.

Melting glaciers are revealing human artifacts of a few thousand years ago.

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thousand (ˈθaʊzənd)

—n
1.	See also number the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
2.	a numeral, 1000, 10³, M, etc, representing this number
3.	(often plural) a very large but unspecified number, amount, or quantity: they are thousands of miles away
4.	(plural) the numbers 2000--9999: the price of the picture was in the thousands
5.	the amount or quantity that is one hundred times greater than ten
6.	something represented by, representing, or consisting of 1000 units
7.	maths the position containing a digit representing that number followed by three zeros: in 4760, 4 is in the thousand's place

—*determiner*
8.	a. amounting to a thousand: a thousand ships
	b. (as pronoun): a thousand is hardly enough
9.	amounting to 1000 times a particular scientific unit

Related: kilo-, millenary

[Old English thūsend; related to Old Saxon thūsind, Old High German thūsunt, Old Norse thūsund]

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Word Origin & History

thousand

O.E. þusend, from P.Gmc. *thusundi (cf. O.Fris. thusend, Du. duizend, O.H.G. dusunt, Ger. tausend, O.N. þusund, Goth. þusundi); related to words in Balto-Slavic (cf. Lith. tukstantis, O.C.S. tysashta, Pol. tysiac, Czech tisic), and probably ultimately a compound with indefinite meaning

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"several hundred" or "a great multitude" (with first element perhaps related to Skt. tawas "strong, force"). Used to translate Gk. khilias, L. mille, hence the refinement into the precise modern meaning. There was no general IE word for "thousand." Slang shortening thou first recorded 1867. Thousand island dressing (1916) is presumably named for the region of New York on the St. Lawrence River.

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Idioms & Phrases

thousand

see bat a thousand; by the dozen (thousand); one in a million (thousand); picture is worth a thousand words.