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thousand

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The number 1,000, equal to ten times one hundred.
"The stadium held a thousand spectators."
"She has read over a thousand books in her lifetime."

How to Use Thousand

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishThe number 1,000.

Common pairings
thousands of a thousand times one in a thousand

Word Forms

thousands plural

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Etymology

From Old English þūsend, from a very old Germanic word for "thousand," found with similar forms across Germanic languages such as German tausend and Dutch duizend.

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