thousandfold

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adverb

thou·​sand·​fold

: by 1000 times

—usually preceded by a or a numeral

increased a thousandfold

the small sum spent upon his scientific genius would be returned to the nation ten thousandfold

—World's Work

thousandfold

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adjective

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: being 1000 times as large, as great, or as many as some understood size, degree, or amount : very great

—usually preceded by a or a numeral (as one, four)

and with a thousandfold reverberation

—S. T. Coleridge

a thousandfold increase

thousandfoldly adverb

Word History

Etymology

Adverb

Middle English, from thousand entry 1 + -fold

Adjective

Middle English, from Old English thūsendfeald, from thūsend thousand + -feald -fold

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Rhymes for thousandfold

• copyhold
• decontrolled
• hundredfold
• manifold
• marigold
• oversold
• petioled
• sevenfold
• stranglehold
• subthreshold
• uncontrolled
• ahold