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Definition of thousand
thousands
orthousand
1 : a number equal to 10 times 100 — see number table
2 : a very large number thousands of ants
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His comments came after weeks of saber-rattling in New Delhi and Beijing, as officials from both sides talk up a potential clash even bloodier than their 1962 war that left thousands dead.
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The fact that thousands of U.S. soldiers are still stationed in South Korea is a sore point for Beijing, which would rather not have the American military at their doorstep, experts said.
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Cristi's original Tweet has now amassed thousands of likes and retweets, as well as a slew of comments from pet owners who have done the same thing.
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With Trump's sights already set on the 2020 election, his visit to Poland could also be seen as a power play for battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which are home to hundreds of thousands of Polish-American voters.
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Theoretically banned since 1920, terminations took place annually in the hundreds of thousands: secretly, shamefully and dangerously.
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West Side neighborhood streets slowly rumbled to life Wednesday morning as residents stepped outside to sweep up thousands of tiny July Fourth fireworks.
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At 29 years old, Lesley Murphy was making a living traveling the world, writing about it on her blog The Road Les Traveled, and making her hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers jealous.
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Schawinski’s team took thousands of real images of galaxies, and then artificially degraded them.
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Origin and Etymology of thousand
Middle English, from Old English thūsend; akin to Old High German dūsunt thousand, Lithuanian tūkstantis, and probably to Sanskrit tavas strong, Latin tumēre to swell — more at 1thumb
Other Number-Related Terms
THOUSAND Defined for English Language Learners
thousand
playDefinition of thousand for English Language Learners
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: the number 1,000
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thousands : an amount that is more than 2,000
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: a very large number
THOUSAND Defined for Kids
Definition of thousand for Students
1 : ten times one hundred : 1000
2 : a very large number thousands of things to do
Headscratcher for thousand
is the first number whose name is spelled using an a. That means that you can count from zero to nine-hundred, ninety-nine without ever using an a!
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