thousand


Definition: Meaning of, thousand in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈθaʊz(ə)nd /

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  1. the number 1000
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  2. an extremely large number of things or people
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thousand used in phrases

  • Feeding of the Five Thousand, the
    1. a story from the BIBLE in which Jesus performs a MIRACLE by providing food for 5000 people with only five LOAVES of bread and two fish. People sometimes use this phrase humorously to talk about a situation in which they have to provide a meal for a lot of people.
  • Thousand Island dressing (noun)
    1. mayonnaise with chilli sauce or catsup and minced olives and peppers and hard-cooked egg
  • Thousand and One Nights (noun)
    1. a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century
  • Thousand and One Nights, the
  • Two Thousand Guineas, the
    1. a famous British horse race run at Newmarket
  • hundred thousand (adjective)
    1. in Roman numerals, C written with a macron over it denoting a quantity consisting of 100,000 items or units
    hundred thousand (noun)
    1. the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten
  • one thousand (adjective)
    1. denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
    one thousand (noun)
    1. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
  • one thousand million (noun)
    1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
  • one thousand thousand (noun)
    1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
  • ten thousand (noun)
    1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
    ten thousand (adjective)
    1. denoting a quantity consisting of 10,000 items or units
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