Definitions for thousands

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thousands thou·sand

Spelling: [thou-zuh nd]

IPA: /ˈθaʊ zənd/

Thousands is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 387 anagrams from letters in thousands (adhnosstu).

Definitions for thousands

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 thousands

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

Examples for thousands

The cap devices on thousands of identical hats glinted in the late morning sun along with the shields worn by each of the cops.

The Malakand garrison was being overwhelmed by thousands of tribesmen.

thousands of animals drank from it daily; and after drinking had stood or wallowed in it.

In recent months, thousands of people from all walks of life have flooded the streets of our cities.

This system, once invented, was developed during thousands of years.

There are thousands of them in use on rifles, but they've never been able to use them on revolvers before.

We have thousands of users who identify themselves as transgendered and they are welcome members of the Grindr community.

I had handled thousands and thousands before, and never felt that way.

Rodriguez now headed home to his kids, as did thousands of other police parents.

The seemingly endless ranks snapped to attention on command and thousands of white gloves rose in salute.