Definition of thousand
thousands
orthousand
1 : a number equal to 10 times 100 — see number table
2 : a very large number thousands of ants
thousand
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Recent Examples of thousand from the Web
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Each involved tens of thousands of adults who tracked their lifestyles, health behaviors, and medical histories through questionnaires completed every two years.
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Beginning in August 2015, CoroWare started defaulting on Genesis’s invoices, the suit said, costs that ultimately totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars, the complaint says.
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Even if Flynn is never charged with a crime, his legal costs could reach hundreds of thousands of dollars, said William Jeffress, a lawyer with Baker Botts.
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Thousands of people around the world are spending hours online this month watching a bear cam in Katmai National Park and Preserve in southern Alaska.
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That’s a key concession, and likely a response to the thousands of disabled activists rallied across the country to protest the last draft, which would have sent many disabled Medicaid enrollees to nursing homes.
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Because of this situation, studies show that hundreds of thousands of women and girls in Brazil risk their health and lives to get clandestine—often unsafe—abortions each year.
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Bomar is president of the Baptist Ministers Conference of Greater Cincinnati and Vicinity, whose 150 member ministers represent tens of thousands of congregants.
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McCracken, the psychologist with the engaging smile, is one of tens of thousands of Floridians who are in a silent civil rights struggle in the nation’s third most populous state.
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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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