TEN THOUSAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ten thousand mean? 

• TEN THOUSAND (noun)
  The noun TEN THOUSAND has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand

  Familiarity information: TEN THOUSAND used as a noun is very rare.

• TEN THOUSAND (adjective)
  The adjective TEN THOUSAND has 1 sense:

1. denoting a quantity consisting of 10,000 items or units

  Familiarity information: TEN THOUSAND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEN THOUSAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

10000; myriad; ten thousand

Hypernyms ("ten thousand" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• TEN THOUSAND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Denoting a quantity consisting of 10,000 items or units

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

He hasn't a chance in ten thousand.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But I had ten thousand times rather have been with you; now had not I, Mrs. Allen?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A thousand and a thousand thanks for all the kindness you have ever shewn me, and ten thousand for the attentions your heart will dictate towards her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

If they marry, they will be sure of doing well, and if they do not, they may all live very comfortably together on the interest of ten thousand pounds.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In a moment the butcher lights ten thousand candles out of my left eyebrow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Free companions and Gascons made up this portion of the army to the number of ten thousand men.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a night out of ten thousand for my purpose.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ten thousand thanks to Henry for his kindness, his affection, and his many letters; we are sincerely grateful.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Physically, you are a man in a thousand—in ten thousand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Though our kind uncle has done something towards clearing him, I cannot believe that ten thousand pounds, or anything like it, has been advanced.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)