Thousand - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈθaʊznd|  American pronunciation of the word thousand
Brit.  |ˈθaʊz(ə)nd|  British pronunciation of the word thousand

noun

- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 (syn: chiliad, grand, thou, yard)

adjective

- denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

Extra examples

He made a thousand and one excuses.

The company employs 30 thousand people.

I've been this route a thousand times before.

There are thousands of things I want to do.

Am I sure, myself, about anything at all? No, no, a thousand times, no.

...a great rising of the people was all it took to bring down a regime that imagined that it would endure for a thousand years...

...a film that captures the thunderous fury of medieval warfare and the bruit of a thousand clashing swords...

...a thousand is an inexact figure for the number of islands in the St. Lawrence River...

...the winner in the contest for biggest pumpkin was a jumbo that weighed in at over a thousand pounds...

Thousand of spectators gathered to watch the liftoff of the space shuttle.

I figured I'd burn the guy for a thousand.

Full three thousand at but one draught he caught.

He was afraid he would drop several thousand pounds.

His song enchained a thousand listeners.

A force of seven thousand men landed in Suffolk.

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