Definition of thousand in English:

thousand

cardinal number ˈθaʊz(ə)ndˈθaʊz(ə)nd

a/one thousand

1The number equivalent to the product of a hundred and ten; 1,000.
一千；一千个
a thousand metres
米。
two thousand acres
英亩。
thousands have been killed
几千人被杀了。
Example sentencesExamples
- He was one of ten thousand soldiers to take part in the battle and only two thousand returned home.
- My husband was chairman of a group of companies and his job was to keep several thousand men and women in work.
- It tells the tale of a long march from the Nile to the Alps over three thousand hard-fought miles.
- One thousand cards were sold and the new postal service quickly served to make the cards popular.
- Three and a half thousand people die on the roads each year - the casualty list of a sizeable war.
- At least five thousand people died and thousands more were disabled permanently.
- It is thought that up to five mines and several thousand jobs could have been lost without the subsidy.
- My daughter now goes to nursery, which over the course of a year costs several thousand pounds.
- Several thousand varieties were at one time grown within our shores, he believes.
- We have been eating this in this part of England for at least four thousand years, but it was a first time for me.
- He took the cash when he was in debt to the tune of several thousand pounds.
- Today our discussion boards receive over two thousand individual posts per day.
- Two thousand questionnaires were sent out to homes at the end of last month.
- Ten thousand calendars will be printed but the couple hope there will be enough demand for a lot more.
- They were given up to seven or eight thousand pounds a week and three-year contracts.
- Human nature is about the only thing that hasn't changed all that much in five thousand years.
- It will hold ten thousand people and host concerts, ice skating and sports facilities.
- They were able to destroy a thousand acres of orange trees belonging to a settlement in a single night.
- One thousand of the shirts were made in November and all sold within three weeks of going on sale.
- He owed several thousand pounds and when he was told by friends that he could get a living in Spain he decided to give it a try.
Synonyms
informal K, thou
rare chiliad
1. 1.1thousands The numbers from one thousand to 9,999.
  （表示1000到9, 999之间的数目）上千；数千
  the cost of repairs could be in the thousands
  维修费可能要几千。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Managers would not reveal the cost but said the bill had run into the thousands.
  It is not known how many were killed, but it is thought to have run into thousands.
  Our best estimate is that it may number no more than the low hundreds, rather than thousands.
  Most blogs have a dozen or so readers, but a handful have built up audiences in their thousands.
  I would have to guess the number of folders is in the thousands.
  The number of animals slaughtered will run into thousands over the next few days.
2. 1.2usually thousandsinformal An unspecified large number.
  〈非正式〉许许多多，成千上万
  we will meet thousands of people when we go to college
  I have imagined it a thousand times
  这事儿我已经想像了无数次。
  Example sentencesExamples
  What would be the right decisions in any one of a thousand possible scenarios?
  I'm about to go and drop a thousand tissue paper snowflakes from the roof to surprise the kids.
  The name that launched a thousand quips now belongs to a man addled by cancer and excess.
  There is too little justice, far too much hate, and a thousand more warnings every day of the year.
  The best travel writing shoots off in a thousand directions while never letting a hair get out of place.
  You can be stuck in a hotel, a thousand miles away in a different time zone, and it is never glamorous.
  I would never in a thousand years advise anyone to write a novel about a real person.
  Winehouse sounds as if she has performed a thousand times in smoky jazz clubs.
  It was beautiful and could have sold by the thousand if she had continued to make them.
  I was a lot more messed up than I am now and it seems like a thousand years ago.
  For every book that appears about him, a thousand pour forth about his evil predecessor.
  It sounded as though a thousand suicides were howling in anguish in their eternal punishment.
  And even if the new shoes and their owner last for a thousand years, this is their finest hour.
  As has been uttered a thousand times, it is not your common or garden Scottish golf course.
  Much of my blogroll consists of sites that already have a thousand other links out there.
  I am sure if a thousand other officers did the same thing we would have changes.
  As the sun rose it caught the shadows of a thousand bare footprints in the dust.
  There are a thousand sites on the net which duplicate the popular links of the moment.
  On the internet we find thousands of sites dealing with just about every aspect of astrology.
  The veteran of a thousand battles charged out with the ball and fired it at the square.
  Synonyms
  a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses

Derivatives

thousandfold

adjective & adverb ˈθaʊz(ə)ndfəʊld

Such trivial examples are amplified a thousandfold when it comes to more complex physical characteristics.
Example sentencesExamples
- Populations of snowshoe hares also fluctuate dramatically over approximately ten-year periods, increasing a thousandfold, then crashing.
- The war did not solve Israel's problems, it multiplied them a thousandfold.
- It went on dropping rapidly for the next half-century, until the mortality rate had declined more than a thousandfold.
- We have magnified the power of our technologies a thousandfold.

thousandth

ordinal number ˈθaʊz(ə)nθˈθaʊz(ə)n(t)θ

1Constituting number one thousand in a sequence; 1,000th.
the thousandth television episode
Example sentencesExamples
- Sarah looked at the clock for what felt like the thousandth time
- The nuclear industry accounts for less than a thousandth of radiation exposure; almost all of our exposure to radiation comes from natural sources.
- Low temperature physicists, who can now work at temperatures mere hundredths of thousandths of degrees away from absolute zero, have come a long way.
- The bugs are only a few thousandths of a millimetre across and lack the cell walls which most bacteria have.
- one thousandth of a percent
- scoring is based on thousandths of a second
2Each of one thousand equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

Origin

Old English thūsend, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch duizend and German Tausend.

Definition of thousand in US English:

thousand

cardinal numberˈTHouz(ə)ndˈθaʊz(ə)nd

a/one thousand

1The number equivalent to the product of a hundred and ten; 1,000.
一千；一千个
a thousand meters
米。
two thousand acres
英亩。
thousands have been killed
几千人被杀了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Three and a half thousand people die on the roads each year - the casualty list of a sizeable war.
- Two thousand questionnaires were sent out to homes at the end of last month.
- Ten thousand calendars will be printed but the couple hope there will be enough demand for a lot more.
- He took the cash when he was in debt to the tune of several thousand pounds.
- One thousand cards were sold and the new postal service quickly served to make the cards popular.
- He owed several thousand pounds and when he was told by friends that he could get a living in Spain he decided to give it a try.
- Human nature is about the only thing that hasn't changed all that much in five thousand years.
- We have been eating this in this part of England for at least four thousand years, but it was a first time for me.
- Several thousand varieties were at one time grown within our shores, he believes.
- It tells the tale of a long march from the Nile to the Alps over three thousand hard-fought miles.
- It will hold ten thousand people and host concerts, ice skating and sports facilities.
- One thousand of the shirts were made in November and all sold within three weeks of going on sale.
- They were given up to seven or eight thousand pounds a week and three-year contracts.
- They were able to destroy a thousand acres of orange trees belonging to a settlement in a single night.
- He was one of ten thousand soldiers to take part in the battle and only two thousand returned home.
- It is thought that up to five mines and several thousand jobs could have been lost without the subsidy.
- My husband was chairman of a group of companies and his job was to keep several thousand men and women in work.
- Today our discussion boards receive over two thousand individual posts per day.
- At least five thousand people died and thousands more were disabled permanently.
- My daughter now goes to nursery, which over the course of a year costs several thousand pounds.
Synonyms
k, thou
1. 1.1thousands The numbers from one thousand to 9,999.
  （表示1000到9, 999之间的数目）上千；数千
  the cost of repairs could be in the thousands
  维修费可能要几千。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is not known how many were killed, but it is thought to have run into thousands.
  Our best estimate is that it may number no more than the low hundreds, rather than thousands.
  Managers would not reveal the cost but said the bill had run into the thousands.
  I would have to guess the number of folders is in the thousands.
  Most blogs have a dozen or so readers, but a handful have built up audiences in their thousands.
  The number of animals slaughtered will run into thousands over the next few days.
2. 1.2usually thousandsinformal An unspecified large number.
  〈非正式〉许许多多，成千上万
  we will meet thousands of people when we go to college
  I have imagined it a thousand times
  这事儿我已经想像了无数次。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was beautiful and could have sold by the thousand if she had continued to make them.
  I was a lot more messed up than I am now and it seems like a thousand years ago.
  The best travel writing shoots off in a thousand directions while never letting a hair get out of place.
  The name that launched a thousand quips now belongs to a man addled by cancer and excess.
  Much of my blogroll consists of sites that already have a thousand other links out there.
  I would never in a thousand years advise anyone to write a novel about a real person.
  The veteran of a thousand battles charged out with the ball and fired it at the square.
  On the internet we find thousands of sites dealing with just about every aspect of astrology.
  There is too little justice, far too much hate, and a thousand more warnings every day of the year.
  It sounded as though a thousand suicides were howling in anguish in their eternal punishment.
  And even if the new shoes and their owner last for a thousand years, this is their finest hour.
  As the sun rose it caught the shadows of a thousand bare footprints in the dust.
  I'm about to go and drop a thousand tissue paper snowflakes from the roof to surprise the kids.
  For every book that appears about him, a thousand pour forth about his evil predecessor.
  Winehouse sounds as if she has performed a thousand times in smoky jazz clubs.
  I am sure if a thousand other officers did the same thing we would have changes.
  You can be stuck in a hotel, a thousand miles away in a different time zone, and it is never glamorous.
  As has been uttered a thousand times, it is not your common or garden Scottish golf course.
  What would be the right decisions in any one of a thousand possible scenarios?
  There are a thousand sites on the net which duplicate the popular links of the moment.
  Synonyms
  a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses

Origin

Old English thūsend, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch duizend and German Tausend.

单词	thousand
释义	Definition of thousand in English: thousand cardinal number ˈθaʊz(ə)ndˈθaʊz(ə)nd a/one thousand 1The number equivalent to the product of a hundred and ten; 1,000. 一千；一千个 a thousand metres 米。 two thousand acres 英亩。 thousands have been killed 几千人被杀了。 Example sentencesExamples He was one of ten thousand soldiers to take part in the battle and only two thousand returned home. My husband was chairman of a group of companies and his job was to keep several thousand men and women in work. It tells the tale of a long march from the Nile to the Alps over three thousand hard-fought miles. One thousand cards were sold and the new postal service quickly served to make the cards popular. Three and a half thousand people die on the roads each year - the casualty list of a sizeable war. At least five thousand people died and thousands more were disabled permanently. It is thought that up to five mines and several thousand jobs could have been lost without the subsidy. My daughter now goes to nursery, which over the course of a year costs several thousand pounds. Several thousand varieties were at one time grown within our shores, he believes. We have been eating this in this part of England for at least four thousand years, but it was a first time for me. He took the cash when he was in debt to the tune of several thousand pounds. Today our discussion boards receive over two thousand individual posts per day. Two thousand questionnaires were sent out to homes at the end of last month. Ten thousand calendars will be printed but the couple hope there will be enough demand for a lot more. They were given up to seven or eight thousand pounds a week and three-year contracts. Human nature is about the only thing that hasn't changed all that much in five thousand years. It will hold ten thousand people and host concerts, ice skating and sports facilities. They were able to destroy a thousand acres of orange trees belonging to a settlement in a single night. One thousand of the shirts were made in November and all sold within three weeks of going on sale. He owed several thousand pounds and when he was told by friends that he could get a living in Spain he decided to give it a try. Synonyms informal K, thou rare chiliad 1.1thousands The numbers from one thousand to 9,999. （表示1000到9, 999之间的数目）上千；数千 the cost of repairs could be in the thousands 维修费可能要几千。 Example sentencesExamples Managers would not reveal the cost but said the bill had run into the thousands. It is not known how many were killed, but it is thought to have run into thousands. Our best estimate is that it may number no more than the low hundreds, rather than thousands. Most blogs have a dozen or so readers, but a handful have built up audiences in their thousands. I would have to guess the number of folders is in the thousands. The number of animals slaughtered will run into thousands over the next few days. 1.2usually thousandsinformal An unspecified large number. 〈非正式〉许许多多，成千上万 we will meet thousands of people when we go to college I have imagined it a thousand times 这事儿我已经想像了无数次。 Example sentencesExamples What would be the right decisions in any one of a thousand possible scenarios? I'm about to go and drop a thousand tissue paper snowflakes from the roof to surprise the kids. The name that launched a thousand quips now belongs to a man addled by cancer and excess. There is too little justice, far too much hate, and a thousand more warnings every day of the year. The best travel writing shoots off in a thousand directions while never letting a hair get out of place. You can be stuck in a hotel, a thousand miles away in a different time zone, and it is never glamorous. I would never in a thousand years advise anyone to write a novel about a real person. Winehouse sounds as if she has performed a thousand times in smoky jazz clubs. It was beautiful and could have sold by the thousand if she had continued to make them. I was a lot more messed up than I am now and it seems like a thousand years ago. For every book that appears about him, a thousand pour forth about his evil predecessor. It sounded as though a thousand suicides were howling in anguish in their eternal punishment. And even if the new shoes and their owner last for a thousand years, this is their finest hour. As has been uttered a thousand times, it is not your common or garden Scottish golf course. Much of my blogroll consists of sites that already have a thousand other links out there. I am sure if a thousand other officers did the same thing we would have changes. As the sun rose it caught the shadows of a thousand bare footprints in the dust. There are a thousand sites on the net which duplicate the popular links of the moment. On the internet we find thousands of sites dealing with just about every aspect of astrology. The veteran of a thousand battles charged out with the ball and fired it at the square. Synonyms a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses Derivatives thousandfold adjective & adverb ˈθaʊz(ə)ndfəʊld Such trivial examples are amplified a thousandfold when it comes to more complex physical characteristics. Example sentencesExamples Populations of snowshoe hares also fluctuate dramatically over approximately ten-year periods, increasing a thousandfold, then crashing. The war did not solve Israel's problems, it multiplied them a thousandfold. It went on dropping rapidly for the next half-century, until the mortality rate had declined more than a thousandfold. We have magnified the power of our technologies a thousandfold. thousandth ordinal number ˈθaʊz(ə)nθˈθaʊz(ə)n(t)θ 1Constituting number one thousand in a sequence; 1,000th. the thousandth television episode Example sentencesExamples Sarah looked at the clock for what felt like the thousandth time The nuclear industry accounts for less than a thousandth of radiation exposure; almost all of our exposure to radiation comes from natural sources. Low temperature physicists, who can now work at temperatures mere hundredths of thousandths of degrees away from absolute zero, have come a long way. The bugs are only a few thousandths of a millimetre across and lack the cell walls which most bacteria have. one thousandth of a percent scoring is based on thousandths of a second 2Each of one thousand equal parts into which something is or may be divided. Origin Old English thūsend, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch duizend and German Tausend. Definition of thousand in US English: thousand cardinal numberˈTHouz(ə)ndˈθaʊz(ə)nd a/one thousand 1The number equivalent to the product of a hundred and ten; 1,000. 一千；一千个 a thousand meters 米。 two thousand acres 英亩。 thousands have been killed 几千人被杀了。 Example sentencesExamples Three and a half thousand people die on the roads each year - the casualty list of a sizeable war. Two thousand questionnaires were sent out to homes at the end of last month. Ten thousand calendars will be printed but the couple hope there will be enough demand for a lot more. He took the cash when he was in debt to the tune of several thousand pounds. One thousand cards were sold and the new postal service quickly served to make the cards popular. He owed several thousand pounds and when he was told by friends that he could get a living in Spain he decided to give it a try. Human nature is about the only thing that hasn't changed all that much in five thousand years. We have been eating this in this part of England for at least four thousand years, but it was a first time for me. Several thousand varieties were at one time grown within our shores, he believes. It tells the tale of a long march from the Nile to the Alps over three thousand hard-fought miles. It will hold ten thousand people and host concerts, ice skating and sports facilities. One thousand of the shirts were made in November and all sold within three weeks of going on sale. They were given up to seven or eight thousand pounds a week and three-year contracts. They were able to destroy a thousand acres of orange trees belonging to a settlement in a single night. He was one of ten thousand soldiers to take part in the battle and only two thousand returned home. It is thought that up to five mines and several thousand jobs could have been lost without the subsidy. My husband was chairman of a group of companies and his job was to keep several thousand men and women in work. Today our discussion boards receive over two thousand individual posts per day. At least five thousand people died and thousands more were disabled permanently. My daughter now goes to nursery, which over the course of a year costs several thousand pounds. Synonyms k, thou 1.1thousands The numbers from one thousand to 9,999. （表示1000到9, 999之间的数目）上千；数千 the cost of repairs could be in the thousands 维修费可能要几千。 Example sentencesExamples It is not known how many were killed, but it is thought to have run into thousands. Our best estimate is that it may number no more than the low hundreds, rather than thousands. Managers would not reveal the cost but said the bill had run into the thousands. I would have to guess the number of folders is in the thousands. Most blogs have a dozen or so readers, but a handful have built up audiences in their thousands. The number of animals slaughtered will run into thousands over the next few days. 1.2usually thousandsinformal An unspecified large number. 〈非正式〉许许多多，成千上万 we will meet thousands of people when we go to college I have imagined it a thousand times 这事儿我已经想像了无数次。 Example sentencesExamples It was beautiful and could have sold by the thousand if she had continued to make them. I was a lot more messed up than I am now and it seems like a thousand years ago. The best travel writing shoots off in a thousand directions while never letting a hair get out of place. The name that launched a thousand quips now belongs to a man addled by cancer and excess. Much of my blogroll consists of sites that already have a thousand other links out there. I would never in a thousand years advise anyone to write a novel about a real person. The veteran of a thousand battles charged out with the ball and fired it at the square. On the internet we find thousands of sites dealing with just about every aspect of astrology. There is too little justice, far too much hate, and a thousand more warnings every day of the year. It sounded as though a thousand suicides were howling in anguish in their eternal punishment. And even if the new shoes and their owner last for a thousand years, this is their finest hour. As the sun rose it caught the shadows of a thousand bare footprints in the dust. I'm about to go and drop a thousand tissue paper snowflakes from the roof to surprise the kids. For every book that appears about him, a thousand pour forth about his evil predecessor. Winehouse sounds as if she has performed a thousand times in smoky jazz clubs. I am sure if a thousand other officers did the same thing we would have changes. You can be stuck in a hotel, a thousand miles away in a different time zone, and it is never glamorous. As has been uttered a thousand times, it is not your common or garden Scottish golf course. What would be the right decisions in any one of a thousand possible scenarios? There are a thousand sites on the net which duplicate the popular links of the moment. Synonyms a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses Origin Old English thūsend, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch duizend and German Tausend.
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