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thousand
- /ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/ UK
- /ˈθawz(ə)nd/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈθuːz(ə)nd/ Northumbria, UK
- /ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/ US
- [ˈθaʊ̯zn̩d] US
Where it comes from
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).
number thousands · 1000 · M · kilo- · thousan'
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A numerical value equal to 1,000; ten times a hundred (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation)
The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
Similar: nillion, illion, one thousand, one nillion, one illion, a thousand, a nillion, an illion, ten hundred
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: a thousand, cardinal, chiliad, g, grand, k, m, one thousand, thou, yard, alfa, alpha, alva, ballpark, billion, chun
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Talk about this word "thousand." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/thousand. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. thousand. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/thousand "thousand." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/thousand.Cite this
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