thousand

[thou·sand]

The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

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The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

Noun
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Adjective S.
denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units


n.
The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

n.
Hence, indefinitely, a great number.

n.
A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI/.

a.
Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.

a.
Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely.


Thousand

Thou"sand , n. [OE. þousend, þusend, AS. þ&umac;send; akin to OS. th&umac;sundig, th&umac;sind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend, OHG. tsunt, dsunt, Icel. þ&umac;sund, þ&umac;shund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth. þ&umac;sundi, Lith. tukstantis, Russ. tuisiacha; of uncertain origin.] 1. The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. 2. Hence, indefinitely, a great number.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand.
&hand; The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note under Hundred. 3. A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI.

Thousand

Thou"sand, a. 1. Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred. 2. Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. "Perplexed with a thousand cares." Shak.

The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.

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Usage Examples

A picture is worth a thousand words.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

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