thousand

Meaning

A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)

Concepts

thousand

one thousand

thousandfold

great number

lots of

many

thousands of

thou

1000

box

a thousand

myriad

ten hundred

multitude

thousands

peso

kilo

mile

millenary

k

m

chiliad

G

K

M

grand

yard

dresser

trunk

units

Hyphenated as

thou‧sand

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/

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).