thousand
pronunciation
How to pronounce thousand in British English:
UK [ˈθaʊznd]
How to pronounce thousand in American English:
US [ˈθaʊznd]
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- Noun:
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
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- Adjective:
- denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
Word Origin
- thousand
- thousand: [OE] Thousand is a compound noun of some antiquity, which seems to mean etymologically ‘several hundreds’. Its first element probably comes from a base denoting ‘increase’ or ‘multiplicity’, which also produced Latin tumēre ‘swell’ (source of English tumour) and Sanskrit tuvi ‘much’; its second element is the same as the first element of English hundred. The combination resulted in a prehistoric Germanic *thusundi, which evolved into German tausend, Dutch duizend, Swedish tusen, Danish tusind, and English thousand. It is shared by the Slavic languages – Russian, for instance, has tysjacha.=> hundred, thigh, thumb, tumour
- thousand (adj.)
- Old English þusend, from Proto-Germanic *thusundi (cognates: Old Frisian thusend, Dutch duizend, Old High German dusunt, German tausend, Old Norse þusund, Gothic þusundi). Related to words in Balto-Slavic (Lithuanian tukstantis, Old Church Slavonic tysashta, Polish tysiąc, Russian tysiacha, Czech tisic), and probably ultimately a compound with indefinite meaning "great multitude, several hundred," literally "swollen-hundred," with first element from PIE root *teue- (2) "to swell" (see thigh). 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) presumably is named for the region of New York on the St. Lawrence River.
Example
- 1. I saw a thousand years pass in two seconds .
- 2. Don 't match cheap underwears with thousand cashmere coat .
- 3. Another natural disaster in another asian country claims many thousand lives .
- 4. One thousand cost only $ 18 on average , according to estimates by barracuda networks , a network security company .
- 5. There 's a thousand different things that you can do .