thousand
//ˈθaʊz(ə)nd//
Definitions
1.A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly, in scientific E notation.)
- Many thousands of people came to the conference.
- The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
- And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1355
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English thousend, thusand
From Old English þūsend (“thousand”)
From Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi