Thousand

//ˈθaʊz(ə)nd// num

num ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units wordnet
Numeral
  1. 1
    A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)

    "The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month."

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10001000a billiona crorea lakha million

Example

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"One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006."

Etymology

From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).

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