thousand

thousand - Translingual

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈtaʊˈzænd/

Noun

thousand

  1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO phonetic alphabet code for thousand.

Usage notes

Used when reciting distances (including altitudes), but not for serial numbers. That is, a serial number 10946 would be read simply as its digits: one zero nine four six.

thousand - English

Alternative forms

  • Arabic numerals: 1000 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
  • Roman numerals: M
  • ISO prefix: kilo-
  • Exponential notation: 103

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/
  • (General American) enPR: thou′zənd, IPA: /ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/, [ˈθaʊ̯zn̩d]
  • Hyphenation: thou‧sand

Numeral

thousand (plural thousands)

  1. A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103
    • The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
    • Many thousands of people came to the conference.

Usage notes

Unlike cardinal numerals such as ten or ninety-nine (where one can say e.g. there were ten men present), the word thousand is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or another numeral to function as a numeral: one cannot say *there were thousand men present, but must say:

  • there were a thousand men / one thousand men / forty-three thousand men present
  • one can also speak of the thousand men, several thousand men, or some thousand men who were present
  • compare a dozen men / one dozen men / forty-three dozen men, the dozen men, several dozen men, some dozen men

When preceded by a determiner or numeral and followed by of, it can be singular or plural:

  • two thousand of the inhabitants died, several thousand of the inhabitants fled
  • many thousands of women marched
  • "Aragorn should find some two thousands of those that he had gathered to him in the South; but Imrahil should find three and a half thousands; and Éomer five hundreds of the Rohirrim who were unhorsed but themselves warworthy." (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King)

When followed by of and not preceded by a determiner or numeral, it must be pluralized with -s: thousands of women protested, countless thousands of women voted, not *thousand of women.

In Malaysian English, 1100, 1200, and other numbers combining a thousand and hundreds are known as thousand one, thousand two, thousand three, and so on.

Synonyms

Derived terms

numbers
other

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Translations

Anagrams

thousand - Middle English

Numeral

thousand

  1. Alternative form of thousend

Adjective

thousand

  1. Alternative form of thousend

thousand - Scots

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈθuzɪnd/, /ˈθuzənd/

Numeral

thousand

  1. thousand

Usage notes

Used with "a" in the same way as English to denote 1000.

Meaning and Definition of thousand
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