What does thousand mean?
Definitions for thousand
ˈθaʊ zəndthou·sand
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Princeton's WordNet
thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard(adj)
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k(adj)
denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
Wiktionary
thousand(Numeral)
A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 100 = 10
Etymology: From þusend.
Webster Dictionary
Thousand(noun)
the number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects
Thousand(noun)
hence, indefinitely, a great number
Thousand(noun)
a symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI/
Thousand(adj)
consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred
Thousand(adj)
hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Thousand
thow′zand, adj. denoting ten hundred: proverbially, denoting any great number.—n. the number ten hundred: any large number.—adj. Thou′sandfold, folded a thousand times: multiplied by a thousand.—n. Thou′sand-legs, any one of the Myriapoda.—adj. Thou′sandth, the last of a thousand or of any great number.—n. one of a thousand or of any great number.—One in [of] a thousand, anything exceedingly rare, implying a high degree of rarity or excellence. [A.S. thúsend; Ger. tausend, Goth. thúsundi.]
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'thousand' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1978
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'thousand' in Written Corpus Frequency: #224
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'thousand' in Nouns Frequency: #250
Anagrams for thousand »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of thousand in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of thousand in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of thousand in a Sentence
The next thing I know, the pictures just went viral, within an hour. I saw like a thousand retweets; everyone was reposting it.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.
You can't send 20, 30 thousand people in, wrap it up in just a few months and live happily ever after, because the fundamental problems remain.
In the last few months, 30 million Americans have been infected with a virus, about 300 to 500 thousand of them so severe they had to be hospitalized, and about 30,000 of them died. It's the influenza virus. We are so culturally numb to' just the flu' that we don't take it seriously despite the numbers. And in contrast, the coronavirus has killed about 3,300 in roughly the same time.
This planet is about a thousand light-years away, so were not getting there anytime soon! but this is a really exciting find, since there have only been 15 small, confirmed planets in the Habitable Zone found in Kepler data so far.
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- зықыAbkhaz
- duisendAfrikaans
- milAragonese
- ١٠٠٠, الفArabic
- waranqaAymara
- minAzerbaijani
- меңBashkir
- ты́сячаBelarusian
- хилядаBulgarian
- হাজারBengali
- སྟོངTibetan Standard
- milBreton
- milenar, miler, milCatalan, Valencian
- эзарChechen
- tisícCzech
- milWelsh
- tusind, tusindeDanish
- tausendGerman
- akpeEwe
- χίλιαGreek
- milEsperanto
- milSpanish
- tuhatEstonian
- milaBasque
- هِزارPersian
- tuhatFinnish
- túsundFaroese
- milleFrench
- tûzenWestern Frisian
- míleIrish
- mìleScottish Gaelic
- milGalician
- suGuaraní
- હજારGujarati
- jeih keead, thousane, milleyManx
- אלףHebrew
- हज़ार, १०००, सहस्रHindi
- ezerHungarian
- հազարArmenian
- milleInterlingua
- ribuIndonesian
- milIdo
- þúsundIcelandic
- milleItalian
- 千Japanese
- ათასიGeorgian
- мыңKazakh
- មួយពាន់Khmer
- ಸಾವಿರKannada
- 천, 千Korean
- hizar, hezar, ههزارKurdish
- миңKyrgyz
- mīlia, mīlleLatin
- ພັນLao
- tūkstantisLithuanian
- tūkstotisLatvian
- manoMāori
- илјадаMacedonian
- ആയിരംMalayalam
- мянгаMongolian
- ribuMalay
- elfMaltese
- တထောင်Burmese
- arañaNauru
- duizendDutch
- tusenNorwegian
- tʼááłáhádí mííl, míílNavajo, Navaho
- chikwi chimodziChichewa, Chewa, Nyanja
- mila, milOccitan
- ingodosagoonsOjibwe, Ojibwa
- мин, æрзæOssetian, Ossetic
- ਹਜ਼ਾਰPanjabi, Punjabi
- tysiącPolish
- milPortuguese
- waranqaQuechua
- mieRomanian
- ты́сячаRussian
- सहस्रSanskrit
- milla, mila, mizi, miza, milliSardinian
- тисућа, хиљада, hiljada, tisućaSerbo-Croatian
- දහසSinhala, Sinhalese
- tisícSlovak
- tísočSlovene
- mijëAlbanian
- tusenSwedish
- elfuSwahili
- ஆயிரம்Tamil
- వెయ్యి, వేయిTelugu
- ҳазорTajik
- ๑๐๐๐, พันThai
- müňTurkmen
- liboTagalog
- binTurkish
- меңTatar
- ти́сячаUkrainian
- ہزارUrdu
- mingUzbek
- ngàn, một nghìn, nghìnVietnamese
- milVolapük
- טויזנטYiddish
- 千Chinese
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