thousands
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zənd noun
1.
a cardinal number, 10 times 100.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 1000 or M.
3.
thousands, the numbers between 1000 and 999,999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property damage was in the thousands.
4.
a great number or amount.
5.
Also, thousand's place.
a.
(in a mixed number) the position of the fourth digit to the left of the decimal point.
b.
(in a whole number) the position of the fourth digit from the right.
adjective
6.
amounting to 1000 in number.
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Thousands
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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English thūsend; cognate with Dutch duizend, Old High German dūsunt, Old Norse thūsund, Gothic thūsindi
before 900; Middle English; Old English thūsend; cognate with Dutch duizend, Old High German dūsunt, Old Norse thūsund, Gothic thūsindi
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thousand (ˈθaʊzənd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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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Etymonline
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
"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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Bible Dictionary
Thousands definition
(Micah 5:2), another name for "families" or "clans" (see Num. 1:16; 10:4; Josh. 22:14, 21). Several "thousands" or "families" made up a "tribe."
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
The combined street value of the bottles currently in this room runs into the tens of thousands.
Permafrost is basically dirt that's been permanently frozen for hundreds or thousands of years, much of it since the last ice age.
Hospitals are working, though not before thousands of survivors died of their injuries.
He was not above buying influence, nor was he above evicting tens of thousands of poor people to develop his visions.
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