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Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : thou-zuh nd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈθaʊ zənd



Définition of thousand

Origin :
  • Old English þusend, from Proto-Germanic *thusundi (cf. Old Frisian thusend, Dutch duizend, Old High German dusunt, German tausend, Old Norse þusund, Gothic þusundi).
  • Related to words in Balto-Slavic (cf. Lithuanian tukstantis, Old Church Slavonic tysashta, Polish tysiąc, Czech tisic), and probably ultimately a compound with indefinite meaning "several hundred" or "a great multitude" (with first element perhaps related to Sanskrit tawas "strong, force").
  • Used to translate Greek khilias, Latin mille, hence the refinement into the precise modern meaning. There was no general Indo-European word for "thousand." Slang shortening thou first recorded 1867. Thousand island dressing (1916) is presumably named for the region of New York on the St. Lawrence River.
  • adj having 1000 of something
  • noun pertaining to 1000
Example sentences :
  • Did he say anything about what he had done with this thousand dollars or more?
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • He thinks you're dying to hear how he made the first thousand of himself.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • The clock struck twelve, and it seemed as if it struck a thousand.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • A thousand pounds is a heavy venture for one so straitened as I am.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • These trees are reputed to have flourished for much more than a thousand years.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • Out there in the dark there is the wild tattoo of a thousand rifles; and hark!
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • If it had been one in a thousand she would have said the same.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • I'd give a thousand dollars, if I had it, to be free of this job.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • A thousand schemes were afloat in his mind about the future, of the most improbable kind.
  • Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
  • Promise me not to marry this man, and I will settle on you a thousand a year—safe.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

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