thousand

adjhaving 1000 of something

nounpertaining to 1000

Word Origin & History

Old English þusend, from Proto-Germanic *thusundi (cf. Old Frisian thusend, Dutch duizend, Old High German dusunt, German tausend, Old Norse þusund, Gothic þusundi).

Related to words in Balto-Slavic (cf. Lithuanian tukstantis, Old Church Slavonic tysashta, Polish tysiąc, Czech tisic), and probably ultimately a compound with indefinite meaning "several hundred" or "a great multitude" (with first element perhaps related to Sanskrit tawas "strong, force").

Used to translate Greek khilias, Latin mille, hence the refinement into the precise ...

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Example Sentences for thousand

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

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.

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

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

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