thousand.
A numerical value equal to 1,000; ten times a hundred (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation)
Meaning & usage
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.
Many thousands of people came to the conference.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥? Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm? Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont- Proto-Germanic *þūsundī Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi Old English þūsend Middle English thousend English thousand 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).
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