thousand
Plural: thousands
Noun
- The cardinal number representing ten hundreds.
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Adjective Satellite
- denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
Num
- A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)
Examples
- Many thousands of people came to the conference.
- Scoring a THOUSAND points in one Words With Friends game is a legendary feat.
- The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).
Synonyms
1000, chiliad, G, grand, k, K, M, m, one thousand, thou, yard, a nillion, a thousand, an illion, illion, nillion, one illion, one nillion, ten hundred
Scrabble Score: 12
thousand: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordthousand: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
thousand: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary