thousand
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thousands
Britannica Dictionary definition of THOUSAND
1
[count]
plural
thousand
:
the number 1,000
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a/one thousand (of them)
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a thousand and one = one thousand and one = (chiefly US) a thousand one [=1,001]
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two thousand (of them)
2
thousands
[plural]
:
an amount that is more than 2,000
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Thousands (and thousands) of people visited the shrine.
3
[count]
:
a very large number
— usually plural
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I've done this thousands of times. [=many times]
a picture is worth a thousand words
bat a thousand
never/not in a thousand years
— thousand
adjective, always used before a noun-
a thousand miles [=1,000 miles]
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a thousand dollars/years/times
— thousands
pronoun-
Thousands protested the convention.
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a/one thousandth of a second = one one-thousandths of a second [=1/1000 second]
— thousandth
adjective-
the thousandth person to join
