Synonyms for thousand
| 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 tysiÄ…c, 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
- 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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