Definitions for thousand

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thousand thou·sand

Spelling: [thou-zuh nd]

IPA: /ˈθaʊ zənd/

Thousand is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 329 anagrams from letters in thousand (adhnostu).

Definitions for thousand

noun

1. a cardinal number, 10 times 100.
2. a symbol for this number, as 1000 or M.
3. thousands, the numbers between 1000 and 999,999, as in referring to an amount of money:
4. a great number or amount.
5. Also, thousand's place. (in a mixed number) the position of the fourth digit to the left of the decimal point. (in a whole number) the position of the fourth digit from the right.

adjective

1. amounting to 1000 in number.

Origin of thousand

before 900; Middle English; Old English thūsend; cognate with Dutch duizend, Old High German dūsunt, Old Norse thūsund, Gothic thūsindi

Examples for thousand

Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.

These trees are reputed to have flourished for much more than a thousand years.

The technician on the other end is probably in a laboratory a thousand miles away.

In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.

He thinks you're dying to hear how he made the first thousand of himself.

The clock struck twelve, and it seemed as if it struck a thousand.

One person who dialed in has “a pretty big Twitter following,” Goff said, “several thousand.”

Did he say anything about what he had done with this thousand dollars or more?

Two years into an Arctic expedition, they were forced to abandon ship a thousand miles north of Siberia.

A thousand pounds is a heavy venture for one so straitened as I am.