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/θˈaʊzənd/ /θˈaʊzən/ Listen

noun

Thousand n.

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

Hence, indefinitely, a great number. "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand." Note: The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note under Hundred.

A symbol representing one thousand units.

adjective

Thousand adj.

Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.

Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. "Perplexed with a thousand cares."

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Etymology of 'Thousand'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thousand" Quotes from Famous Books

... broadening over the mountains, and bringing out a thousand prismatic colors from the autumn foliage of the trees, gemmed now with the rain drops that had fallen ...

— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... gone. We become advocates wrangling for victory—we are no longer tranquil observers, compassionate friends and teachers. Mr. Hardwick sometimes addresses himself to men like Lao-tse or Buddha, who are now dead and gone more than two thousand years, in a tone of offended orthodoxy, which may or may not be right in modern controversy, but which entirely disregards the fact that it has pleased God to let these men and millions of human beings be ...

— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller

... instituted clearly indicate. It is thus possible, these scholars believe, to trace, in outline at least, the literary history of the Semitic flood story in its various transformations through a period of nearly two thousand years. ...

— The Making of a Nation - The Beginnings of Israel's History • Charles Foster Kent and Jeremiah Whipple Jenks

... cheapness of food may be formed from the fact that Captain Neves purchased 380 lbs. of tobacco from the Bangalas for about two pounds sterling. This, when carried into central Londa, might purchase seven thousand five hundred fowls, or feed with meal and fowls seven thousand persons for one day, giving each a fowl and 5 lbs. of meal. When food is purchased here with either salt or coarse calico, four persons ...

— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone

... air of relief, "there remain only two things more. I shall now draw you a check for four thousand and ninety-one dollars and fifty cents, and you will ...

— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck

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