Thousand

  • 11thousand — /ˈθaʊzənd / (say thowzuhnd) noun (plural thousands, as after a numeral, thousand) 1. a cardinal number, ten times one hundred. 2. a symbol for this number, as 1000 or M. 3. (plural) a great number or amount. –adjective 4. amounting to one… …

  • 12thousand — noun (plural thousands or thousand) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English thūsend; akin to Old High German dūsunt thousand, Lithuanian tūkstantis, and probably to Sanskrit tavas strong, Latin tumēre to swell more at thumb Date: before 12th… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 13thousand — Synonyms and related words: G, M, a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion, a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, billion, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, considerable, ever so many, full many, gobs,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 14thousand — n. & adj. n. (pl. thousands or (in sense 1) thousand) (in sing. prec. by a or one) 1 the product of a hundred and ten. 2 a symbol for this (1,000, m, M). 3 a set of a thousand things. 4 (in sing. or pl.) colloq. a large number. adj. that amount… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 15thousand — thou|sand [ θauznd ] number ** 1. ) the number 1,000 2. ) thousands or a thousand a large number or amount of people or things: The floods have left thousands homeless. I still have a thousand things to do …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 16thousand — [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… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 17thousand*/*/ — [ˈθaʊz(ə)nd] number 1) the number 1, 000 2) thousands or a thousand a large number or amount of people or things The floods have left thousands homeless.[/ex] I still have a thousand things to do.[/ex] …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 18thousand — [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… …

    Word origins

  • 19thousand — See: BY THE DOZEN or BY THE THOUSAND …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 20thousand — See: BY THE DOZEN or BY THE THOUSAND …

    Dictionary of American idioms