THOUSAND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does thousand mean? 

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

1. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

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

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THOUSAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

1000; chiliad; G; grand; K; M; one thousand; thou; thousand; yard

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thousand"):

millenary (a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years))

• THOUSAND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

Synonyms:

1000; k; m; one thousand; thousand

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Maybe bank lose twenty thousand dollars, maybe bank win.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I was unable to pursue the train of thought; a thousand feelings pressed upon me, and I wept bitterly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and you hang a leg!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have a thousand things to say to you; but make haste and get in, for I long to be off.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“No, I haven’t,” I retorted; “for I want you a few thousand miles away from here.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It would be easy to find you thousands.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A medical system from India that has been used for thousands of years.

(Ayurveda, NCI Dictionary)

“It will cost,” returned my aunt, “to article you, just a thousand pounds.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Three thousand will cover the matter.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then this Alec Fairbairn chipped in, and things became a thousand times blacker.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)