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Thousand

Definition: Thousand

Thousand

Adjective

1. Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units.

Noun

1. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "thousand" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Thousand

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

One thousand (1000) is a natural number.

In scientific notation, it is written as 103. The standard prefix for a thousand is "kilo-".

The Roman numeral for thousand is M (for mille).

See also: millennium Thousand is also the name of a single released by techno artist Moby, which has the world record for the fastest tempo in beats-per-minute (BPM) of any released single. It clocks in at approximately 1,000 BPM, hence the title of the recording.

Numbers in the Thousands (1000-1999)

1729 One thousand seven hundred and twenty nine

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thousand."

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Synonyms: Thousand

Synonyms: a thousand (adj), chiliad (n), grand (n), one thousand (n), thou (n), yard (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Thousand

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Diuturnity

Verb: last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand years.

Fashion

Man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum; (taste); the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand; (nobility); elite; (distinction); smart set; the four hundred; in crowd.

Five

Thousand, chiliad; millennium, thousand years, grand; myriad; ten thousand, ban, man; ten thousand years, banzai; lac, one hundred thousand, plum; million; thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion;

Good Man

Salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a gentleman and a scholar; pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among men.

Inexpedience

Tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a thousand.

Money

Double eagle, eagle; Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency; Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate, gold certificate; long bit, short bit; moss, nickel, pile, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock; seawan, seawant; thousand dollars, grand.

Multitude

Adjective: many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore.

Negation

Phrase: there never was a greater mistake; I know better; non haec in faedera; a thousand times no.

Nobility

High life, haute monde; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world; (fashion).

Seclusion Exclusion

Among them but not of them ; " and homeless near a thousand homes I stood "; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife; " makes a solitude and calls it peace "; magna civitas magna solitudo; " never less alone than when alone "; " O sacred solitude! divine retreat! ".

Unconformity

Fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Thousand

English words defined with "thousand": 10000, 1000tha billionbillioncaravan, Chiliagon, Chiliahedron, Chiliarch, Chiliarchy, Chiliast, Christendom, Christianity, ConcordDecillion, disorganised, disorganizedFifth monarchy men, foot, forceg, Gb, gigabyte, glacial epochHusoin advance, infantrykc, key, kg, kHz, kilo, kilocycle, kilocycle per second, kilogram, Kilogramme, kilohertz, kiloton, kilovolt, Kitchen middens, kVlividMegametre, military force, military unit, millennial, Millennialist, millennian, millennium, milliard, mountain sickness, Myria-, myriad, Myriagramme, Myrialitre, Myriarch, MyriareNonillionOcclusion of gases, On the nail, one-thousandth, OrchidaceousPiperaceous, Pleistocene, Pleistocene epochRoman mile, round, Rubiaceousten thousand, text, textual matter, Thousandfold, thousandth, To be up in, To steal a march, To strike off, To the fore, To tone down, trainUpper ten thousandwagon train. (references)
Specialty definitions using "thousand": 1000-year floodAdissechen, Alu family, Alu sequence, Angels, Article omittedbirths, Bloody Assizes, Blue Caps, Brazen HeadCaptain Stiff, Chalmers University of Technology, CHICKEN NABOB, Christian, cluster of galaxies, Composite volcano, Cool Hundred, CpG Islands, CROTALARIA GUATEMALENSIS, Crowddigital audio, DOPPLER SYSTEM, Dying SayingsEucharistFelix, frequency of birthsgigaflops, GIGAWATT, GLOBE, Gods, Gresham and the PearlHildesheimice island, infant death rate, instantaneous fuse, instructional telecastJaw-bone, John CompanykeV, kilobit, kilo-hertz, KLOCLehi, loremagnetism, magnitude, Mass Burn Facility, mbf, MCF, MEGAWATT HOUR, Megawatt-hour, METHUSELAH, Microcurie, Mid-Lent Sunday, Mid-level Cooling, millenniumOrange Blossoms Worn at WeddingsPhreatic eruption, Pinabello, PLUMBRomanceSadi, SALAD MAKER, Samaritan Pentateuch, sauce, Scheherazade, SCIMETAR, Sesha, shaft mine, Ship of the Desert, Singing Apple, software patent, spamdex, speech recognition, Stones, Stumpage pricetopeUSENETVirginsWexford Bridge Massacre, wind energy, WrathYoke. (references)
Etymologies containing "thousand": Myriarch. (references)

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Modern Usage: Thousand

DomainUsage

Screenplays

For a thousand years you've waited for my return (End of Days; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

My neck and my back. I want a hundred and fifty thousand! (Friday; writing credit: D.J. Pooh, Ice Cube)

Mitch has verified that the money is there, seventy-five thousand dollars (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

Lyrics

Do a thousand things (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC)

I must have told you a thousand (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

And a thousand sensations (I Do (Cherish You); performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Keith Stegall and Dan Hill)

I'll walk a thousand miles (Ready Or Not; performing artist: After 7)

I thought it would be so simple, like a thousand times before (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois)

Clever

To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times. (references; author: Mark Twain)

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words. (references; author: Chinese Proverb)

Changing one thing for the better is worth more than proving a thousand things are wrong. (references; author: unknown)

If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand. (references; author: unknown)

God has a thousand ways, where I can see not one; when all my means have reached their end, then His have just begun. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

The Thousand Plane Raid (1969)

Two Thousand Weeks (1969)

A Thousand Pleasures (1968)

Tuktu and the Ten Thousand Fishes (1967)

Song Titles

A Thousand Stars (performing artist: Kathy Young and The Innocents)

A Thousand Miles (performing artist: Vanessa Carlton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Thousand

DomainTitle

References

  • Thousand Trails, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity (reference)

  • One Thousand and One Logical Laws, Accurate Axioms, Profound Principles, Trusty Truisms, Homey Homilies, Colorful Corollaries, Quotable Quotes and ram (reference)

  • Hero With a Thousand Faces: The Cosmogonic Cycle (reference)

  • The Hero With a Thousand Faces: Vol 1-The Adventure of the Hero/Vol 2-The Cosmogonic Cycle (reference)

  • A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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Image Slideshow: Thousand

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Photo Album: Thousand

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a detailed view of a ten thousand light-year long ... Credit: NASA.

Bayou Lafourche was the main channel of the Mississippi River a few thousand years ago. As river bed fills, the river changes course seeking a steeper slope to the sea. If allowed to follow its natural cycle, the Mississippi River would be in the process of changing its course into the bed of the Atchafalaya River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

In the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes at Katmai National Park supporting seismic monitoring stations. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Figure 49. Float invented by Prince Albert I of Monaco and Georges Pouchet for study of currents in the North Atlantic off l'HIRONDELLE in 1887. Left: the unit as it would be seen in the water. Right: the internal structure of the float. A thousand of these floats were released mainly northwest of the Azores in July 1887. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Oregon Trail near Thousand SpringsCultural resourceHistoric areaLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: W. Meyer.

Close up thousand springs waterJarbridge Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Terry Maley.

Captioned measured drawing of the 1984 and 1986 planimetric views of the top deck. The 1986 plan adds objects on the deck that were not originally recorded during the 1984 project. Delineated by Larry V. Nordby, Jerry L. Livingston, 1984; Larry V. Nordby, 1986. Drawings photographically reproduced and spliced onto the HAER Sheet by Robbyn Jackson, 1991. (Reproduction Number: HAER HI-13, sheet 3 of 4) This 1916 battleship is the final resting place for many of the 1,177 USS Arizona crewmen who died on December 7, 1941--the day of the Japanese air attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Hit by a 1,760-pound bomb shortly after 8:00 a.m., the ship sank in less than nine minutes, leaving very little time for the crew to escape. By the end of the attack, the Pacific Fleet had lost many ships and more than two thousand personnel. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. The USS Arizona received National Historic Landmark designation in 1989. Credit: Library of Congress.

... One thousand pounds, old father, if you please; / [John Collier]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"Marine Leathernecks of a Forward Air Control Unit for the U.S. Marines with the First Marine Division in Korea scan the skies from a rugged ridge, on the alert for incoming close-air support planes that continue to hammer at the Chinese Red troop concentrations just a few thousand yards beyond in the rugged Korean terrain." Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 1 July 1951. Note backpack radio carried by one Marine, while another wears earphones and holds the microphone. Credit: NAVY.

Engineering drawing for a tower ("Boston Peace Jubilee Naval Tower; The Tower Of A Thousand Columns"), Boston, Massachusetts. Elevation and plan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Thousand
 

"020318_002" by | Mwolfe |
Commentary: "A thousand words can self-describe."
"The Goose Problem" by Paige Foster
Commentary: "I've heard about the problems with geese at local parks, but a picture is really worth a thousand words."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Thousand

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Smith

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Chinese Proverb

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

Confucius

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Euripides

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

John Mortimer

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Lao-tze

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one pace.

Louis Nizer

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Oliver Goldsmith

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Thousand

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Supposing the conqueror gives to one man a thousand acres, to him and his heirs for ever; to another he lets a thousand acres for his life, under the rent of 501. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Constitution

1791

Clause 1: The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The total effective strength of officers, including the personnel of staffs, whatever their composition, must not exceed four thousand. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

Amid his heavy burdens, duties, and responsibilities - unsought but not recoiled from - the President has traveled a thousand miles to dignify and magnify our meeting here to-day and to give me an opportunity of addressing this kindred nation, as well as my own countrymen across the ocean, and perhaps some other countries too. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

John F. Kennedy

1961

Nor will it finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Thousand

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

A thousand vexatious thoughts would recur

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

Douglas Adams

A man can't cross a hundred thousand light years, mostly in other people's baggage compartments, without beginning to fray a little, and Arthur had frayed a lot.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Dreadful as it was, she was conscious of a shelter in the presence of these thousand witnesses

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

M. Myriel received from the government as bishop a salary of fifteen thousand francs

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He saw her urge her vanities, her fine dress and sash and long black stockings, and knew that he had yielded to them a thousand times

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Six or seven thousand is their utmost power

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Two hundred and fifty thousand people over the road

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

2.43 One thousand old brick

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

Gonzalo: Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any thing

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Non-Fiction Usage: Thousand

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

He went on to study over a thousand individuals in deaf families and found that some of them had certain physical characteristics in common. (references)

Nitric oxide forms peroxynitrite by a reaction that is a million times faster than the one that forms hydroxyl radicals, and it diffuses ten thousand times farther. (references)

For example, a person 75 years old is a thousand times more likely to develop and die of colon cancer than a person 25 years old. Because people are living longer today than they did 50 or 100 years ago, they have a longer exposure time to the factors that may start gene changes that lead to cancer. (references)

Business

However, Telecom has recently announced the purchase of a US$100 thousand WLL system from Alcatel. (references)

In 1999, 474 thousand tons of industrial waste was reused with an estimated value of NT$800 million. (references)

Argentina has a vast coastline on the Atlantic Ocean and several thousand miles of navigable rivers. (references)

Children

Cambodia

Infant mortality was reported most recently at 95 per thousand, and 12.5 percent of children do not live to the age of 5 years. (references)

Lithuania

It is believed that several thousand children live "on the street." Approximately 60 local children's rights protection services across the country routinely identify these children and, if they do not have parents or if their parents abused their parental obligations, place them in foster homes or care institutions. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkey

Police dispersed the several thousand persons waiting in Diyarbakir and briefly detained dozens of them. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

The cost per thousand listeners is very inexpensive. (references)

Sierra Leone

Many thousand Sierra Leoneans reside in the United States. (references)

Moldova

By that time, Voxtel expects to have 150 thousand clients. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

Memorial estimated that the number of individuals unaccounted for was somewhere between several hundred and a thousand. (references)

Russia

The cleansing caused a temporary outflow of several thousand persons from the villages to refugee camps in neighboring Ingushetiya. (references)

Uzbekistan

Estimates by human rights activists usually are in the range of several thousand; political detainees reportedly do not represent a large share of that number. (references)

Minorities

Spain

The Romani community, whose size is estimated by NGO's at several hundred thousand, suffers from substantially higher rates of poverty and illiteracy than the population as a whole. (references)

Nigeria

In late June and early July, several thousand Hausa families fled Tafawa Balewa in southern Bauchi State, following violent attacks by the majority Sayawa ethnic group; according to the ICRC, approximately 20,000 fled their homes, and several dozen may have been killed. (references)

Poland

In March several thousand students, journalists, and politicians removed vulgar and racist slogans from walls in the city of Lodz, a repeat of their efforts in 2000. The small Ukrainian and Belarussian minorities occasionally experienced petty harassment and discrimination. (references)

Political Economy

Djibouti

Djibouti is host to several thousand French military personnel. (references)

SAUDI ARABIA

The office has received several thousand patent applications since 1989, but has only completed thirty-four of them. (references)

OMAN

In 2000, Oman produced 350 million BBL averaging around 955 thousand barrels per day, a production level that has fallen somewhat in recent months. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

According to a local magazine, there are approximately 3 million Christians, 2.7 million Hindus, and several hundred thousand Ahmadis in the country. (references)

Trade

Oman

ODB lending targets small businesses, extending loans to industrial projects up to $650 thousand. (references)

Nepal

In the case of the Upper Bhote Koshi Hydroelectric Project, TDA provided a $500 thousand USD grant for completion of a final feasibility study. (references)

Travel

Chad

Logone Gana: A Kotoko village with a population of several thousand people. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

The Taliban's dress code for women apparently was not enforced strictly upon the nomad population of several hundred thousand or upon the few female foreigners, who nonetheless had to cover their hair, arms, and legs. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

Trafficking in women has occurred for decades; there likely are several hundred thousand trafficked women in the country. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Thousand

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

For every guy from a poor neighborhood who grows up into a criminal, there are a thousand who work hard and build a decent life for themselves.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Thousand

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Herbert C. Hoover

1929-1933The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969We have helped more than a thousand local communities to attack poverty in the neighborhoods of the poor.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Within the lifetime of most people now living, mankind will celebrate that great new year which comes only once in a thousand years--the beginning of the third millennium.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Three-hundred Eighty Five Thousand corporations and private foundations are already working on social programs ranging from drug rehabilitation to job training, and thousands more Americans have written us asking how they can help.

George Bush

1989-1993I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001One thousand days to build a bridge to a land of new promise.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Thousand

"Thousand" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thousand" is used about 10,362 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Cardinal Number100%10,362903

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Thousand

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "thousand".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AlpheusN/ABiblical

A thousand

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Thousand

CountryName
USA

Thousand Trails, Inc.

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Thousand

Expressions using "thousand": a hundred thousand a man in a thousand a thousand a thousand and one a thousand feet high a thousand thanks! a thousand times a thousand times no a thousand times no! a thousand to one around a thousand brave a thousand years by the thousand eight thousand five thousand four thousand hundred thousand it is a thousand pities! one hundred thousand one in a thousand one thousand one thousand million one thousand millions one thousand thousand sixty thousand horse ten thousand ten thousand years the upper ten thousand thousand and One Nights thousand dollars thousand Island dressing Thousand legs thousand million thousand millions thousand oaks Thousand Palms thousand times thousand year old thousand years thousand years old three thousand two thousand upper ten thousand. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "thousand": thousand-acre, thousand-and-one, thousand-bedroom, thousand-day, thousand-dollar, thousand-fold, thousand-foot, thousand-franc, thousand-headed, Thousand-headed cabbage, thousand-kronor note, thousand-legged, thousand-legged worm, thousand-metre, thousand-mile, thousand-mile-long, thousand-miles-an-hour, thousand-millionths, thousand-odd, thousand-page, thousand-petalled, thousand-plus, thousand-pound, thousand-seat, thousand-seven, thousand-strong, thousand-voice, thousand-volume, thousand-watt, thousand-yard, thousand-year, thousand-year-long, thousand-year-old, thousand-years.

Ending with "thousand": five-thousand, multi-thousand, one-thousand.

Containing "thousand": eighteen-thousand-foot, eleven-thousand-foot, five-thousand-pound, five-thousand-ton, forty-thousand-noble, ninety-thousand-seater, one-thousand-two-hundred, seat-on-a-thousand-boards, seven-thousand-foot, six-thousand-footers, six-thousand-talent, ten-thousand-dollar, ten-thousand-mile, twelve-thousand-mile, twenty-thousand-pound, two-thousand-dollar, two-thousand-foot, two-thousand-strong.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thousand

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

thousand oak california

1,243

thousand oak mall

47

thousand island

597

carlton lyrics mile thousand vanessa

47

come doing just like people see thousand

529

a thousand and one night

46

a thousand mile

462

thousand oak civic arts plaza

44

thousand trail

407

thousand island ontario

42

thousand oak

229

canada island thousand

41

real estate thousand oak

163

thousand oak high school

41

corpse house thousand

149

eyes restrict thousand

40

thousand arms

138

a thousand acres

38

thousand foot krutch

128

thousand trail campground

38

city of thousand oak

128

thousand dollar bill

37

lyrics mile thousand

80

thousand foot crutch

36

ten thousand wave

74

thousand island park ny

35

spencer thousand tunick

71

thousand oak auto mall

35

thousand

62

thousand oak home

34

thousand island ny

62

thousand oak star

34

ten thousand village

61

a thousand mile vanessa carlton

34

thousand oak library

57

thousand trail naco

32

thousand island new york

55

thousand island cruise

30

foot krutch lyrics thousand

50

sadako and the thousand paper crane

28
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Modern Translation: Thousand

Language Translations for "thousand"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

duisend (one, one thousand). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

mijë (chiliad). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ألف (accustom, affect, compile, comprise, constitute, form, frequent, millenary, put together, score, write). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

ventimil (twenty thousand), mil (one thousand), dosmil (two thousand), doscientosmil (two hundred thousand), diezmil (ten thousand), cienmil (one hundred thousand). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

tuncahuaranqa (ten thousand), sijhtahuaranqa (six thousand), quimsahuaranqa (three thousand), phesqapataca (five thousand), pätunca waranqa (twenty thousand), pähuaranqa (two thousand), huaranqa (one thousand). (various references)

   

Basque

  

mila. (various references)

   

Bavarian

  

dausnd (one thousand). (various references)

   

Bemba

  

ikana (one thousand), amakana yabili (two thousand), amakana umwanda (one hundred thousand), amakana imyanda ibili (two hundred thousand), amakana ikumi (ten thousand), amakana amakumi yabili (twenty thousand). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

omahksíkiipippo (one thousand). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хиляда (chiliad, mil, thou). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

mil (one thousand). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

usa ka libo (one thousand), usa ka gatus ka libo (one hundred thousand), napulo ka libo (ten thousand), kawhaan ka libo (twenty thousand), duha ka libo (two thousand), duha ka gatus ka libo (two hundred thousand). (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

un mit (one thousand), sien mit (one hundred thousand), dos sien mit (two hundred thousand), dos mit (two thousand), dies mit (ten thousand), bente mit (twenty thousand). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

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Czech

  

tisíce. (various references)

   

Danish

  

tusinde (one thousand). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

duizend (one thousand). (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

patsac huaranca (one hundred thousand), ishcai patsac huaranca (two hundred thousand), ishcai huaranca (two thousand), ishcai chunca huaranca (twenty thousand), huaranca (one thousand), chunca huaranca (ten thousand). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

mil (one thousand). (various references)

   

Estonian

  

tuhat. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

túsund (one thousand). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

هزار. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tuhat (a thousand, one thousand). (various references)

   

French

  

mille (one thousand). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

tûzen (one thousand). (various references)

   

Galician

  

8.000 (eight thousand). (various references)

   

German

  

tausend (one thousand). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χίλια. (various references)

   

Guarani

  

su, mil. (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

njëmijë (one thousand). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אלף (aleph). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ezer (one thousand). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

ribu. (various references)

   

Irish

  

míle (mile). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mille (a thousand, one, one thousand, umpteen). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

, (many), 幾千 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せん (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, wire, wizard), いくせん, (blood, consanguinity, earth, many). (various references)

   

Kongo

  

mafunda nkamazole (two hundred thousand), mafunda nkama (one hundred thousand), mafunda mole (two thousand), mafunda makumole (twenty thousand), mafunda kumi (ten thousand), funda (one thousand). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Thousands). (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

sto iljadi (one hundred thousand), iljada (one thousand), dvesta iljadi (two hundred thousand), dve iljadi (two thousand), dvaeset iljadi (twenty thousand), deset iljadi (ten thousand). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thousane, jeih keead. (various references)

   

Maori

  

tekau mano (ten thousand), rua tekau mano (twenty thousand), rua rau mano (two hundred thousand), rua mano (two thousand), rau mano (one hundred thousand), mano (one thousand). (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

tekeni-tewen'nyawe'ehseron (two thousand), enhskat-tewen'nyawe'ehseron (one thousand), ahsen-tewen'nyawe'ehseron (three thousand). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

tusen (one thousand). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

mil (one thousand). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ousandthay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

tysiąc (one thousand). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

mil (chiliad, mil, one thousand). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

vint mila (twenty thousand), mila (one thousand), dos mila (two thousand), dos cent mila (two hundred thousand), dètz mila (ten thousand), cent mila (one hundred thousand). (various references)

   

Quechua

  

waranqa (one thousand). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

mie (me, one thousand). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

milli (one thousand). (various references)

   

Romany

  

triyànda milyà (thirty thousand), sarànda milya (forty thousand), peìnda milyà (fifty thousand), mìlya (one thousand), desh milyà (two thousand), bish milyà (twenty thousand). (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

igihumbi (one thousand), ibihumbi mirongo ibiri (twenty thousand), ibihumbi ijana (one hundred thousand), ibihumbi cumi (ten thousand), ibihumbi bibiri (two thousand), ibihumbi amajana abiri (two hundred thousand). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тысяча тысячный, тысяча (mil, ths thousand), множество (a great deal, a great many, a lot of, a world of, abundance, array, bags of, cloud, crowd, dozens, ensemble, great number, heap, legion, manifold, mass, mountain, multiples, multiplicity, multitude, ocean, oodles, orgy, pack, pile, plurality, set, stacks of, the many, the million, throng). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

selauafe (one hundred thousand), sefuluafe (ten thousand), luaselauafe (two hundred thousand), luasefuluafe (twenty thousand), luaafe (two thousand), afe (one thousand). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

mìle (a thousand, mile, one thousand). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

sekete (one thousand), diketesome (ten thousand). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hiljada. (various references)

   

Shona

  

chiuru (one thousand). (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

milli (one thousand), dumila (two thousand). (various references)

   

Slovene

  

petnajst-tisoè (fifteen thousand). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mil (mil, one thousand, thou). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

elfu (one thousand). (various references)

   

Swazi

  

-yinkhúlúngwane (one thousand). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tusen (one thousand), tusental. (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

mil (one thousand), isáng líbo (one thousand). (various references)

   

Tahitian

  

tauatini. (various references)

   

Thai

  

แสน (hundred thousand). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bin (g, kilo-, mil), bín (one thousand). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

mьс. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тисяча (chiliad, mil, one thousand). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vô số trong muôn một, số một nghìn, nghìn năm có một, nghìn, một nghìn rất nhiều, hàng nghìn một nghìn lẻ một. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

mil (animal). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Thousand

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

lima. (various references)

Greek700 BCE-300 CE

khilioi. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

mille. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Thousand

LanguageDateSourceMark Chapter 8, Verse 19
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOte touV pente artouV eklasa eiV touV pentakisciliouV posouV kofinouV plhreiV klasmatwn hrate legousin autw dwdeka
Latin405VulgateQuando quinque panes fregi in quinque milia et quot cofinos fragmentorum plenos sustulistis dicunt ei duodecim
Old English990West SaxonHwanne ic bræc fif hlafes & twegenfixas. & hu fela wiligenne ge naman fulle.Hy cwæðon þa twelfe.
Middle English1395WyclifWhanne Y brak fyue looues among fyue thousynde, and hou many cofynes ful of brokun meete `ye tokun vp? Thei seien to hym, Twelue.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleWhen I brake v. loves amonge .v.M. How many baskettes full of broke meate toke ye vp? They sayde vnto him twelve.
Jacobean English1611King JamesWhen I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
Victorian English1833WebsterWhen I divided the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve.
Basic English1964OgdenWhen I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Thousand

LanguageMark Chapter 8, Verse 19
CebuanoPila ba ka bukag ang napuno sa mga tipik nga inyong nahipos niadtong akong pagpikaspikas sa lima ka tinapay alang sa lima ka libo?" Sila miingon kaniya, "Napulogduha"
Chinese我 擘 開 那 五 個 餅 分 給 五 千 人 、 你 們 收 拾 的 零 碎 、 裝 滿 了 多 少 籃 子 呢 . 他 們 說 、 十 二 個 。
CroatianKad sam ono razlomio pet kruhova na pet tisuæa, koliko punih košara ulomaka odnijeste?" Kažu mu: "Dvanaest."
DanishDa jeg brød de fem Brød til de fem Tusinde, hvor mange Kurve fulde af Stykker toge I da op?" De sige til ham: "Tolv."
DutchEn gedenkt gij niet, toen Ik de vijf broden brak onder de vijf duizend mannen, hoeveel volle korven met brokken gij opnaamt? Zij zeggen Hem: Twaalf.
Finnishkun minä mursin ne viisi leipää viidelletuhannelle, kuinka monta vakan täyttä palasia te keräsitte?" He sanoivat hänelle: "Kaksitoista".
FrenchQuand j`ai rompu les cinq pains pour les cinq mille hommes, combien de paniers pleins de morceaux avez-vous emportés? Douze, lui répondirent-ils.
GaelicNuair a bhrist mi na coig bonnaich am measg choig mile, co miad lan cleibh de phronnagan a thog sibh? Thuirt iad ris: A dha dhiag.
Germanda ich fünf Brote brach unter fünftausend: wie viel Körbe voll Brocken hobt ihr da auf? Sie sprachen: Zwölf.
HungarianMikor az öt kenyeret megszegtem az ötezernek, hány kosarat hoztatok el darabokkal tele? Mondának néki: Tizenkettõt.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariakan lima roti itu yang Aku belah-belah untuk lima ribu orang? Berapa bakul penuh kelebihan makanan yang kalian kumpulkan?" "Dua belas," jawab mereka.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamatatkala Aku pecahkan roti yang lima ketul di antara lima ribu orang itu, berapa bakul sisa roti kamu angkat?" Maka kata mereka itu kepada-Nya, "Dua belas bakul."
Italianquando ho spezzato i cinque pani per i cinquemila, quante ceste colme di pezzi avete portato via?». Gli dissero: «Dodici».
MaoriI ahau i whawhati i nga taro e rima ma nga mano e rima, e hia nga kete ki o nga whatiwhatinga i kohia e koutou? Ka mea ratou ki a ia, Kotahi tekau ma rua.
Norwegianda jeg brøt de fem brød til de fem tusen, hvor mange kurver fulle av stykker I da tok op? De sa til ham: Tolv.
PortugueseQuando parti os cinco pães para os cinco mil, quantos cestos cheios de pedaços levantastes? Responderam-lhe: Doze.   
RumanianCknd am frknt cele cinci pkni la cei cinci mii de bqrbayi, ckte cowuri pline cu fqrqmituri ayi ridicat?`` ,,Douqsprezece``, I-au rqspuns ei.
ShuarNekaatarum, nuik, senku tantan Púuran senku mir aishmankan ayurachmakaj. ¿Tura ampirma Urutmá chankinnium chumpiamarum?" Tímiayi. Niisha tiarmiayi "Tuse chankinnium chumpiamji."
SpanishCuando partí los cinco panes entre cinco mil, ¿cuántas canastas llenas de pedazos recogisteis? Ellos dijeron: --Doce.
Swahiliwakati ule nilipoimega ile mikate mitano na kuwapa watu elfu tano? Mlikusanya vikapu vingapi vya mabaki ya makombo?" Wakamjibu, "Kumi na viwili."
SwedishOch kommen I icke ihåg huru många korgar fulla av stycken I samladen upp, när jag bröt de fem bröden åt de fem tusen?" De svarade honom: "Tolv."
Umaroti to lima meha' kupihe-pihe kupokoni' -raka tauna to lima ncobu? Hangkuja luncu-pi toro-na to nirumpu?" Ra'uli' ana'guru-na: "Hampulu' roluncu."

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Thousand

Derivations

Words beginning with "thousand": thousandfold, thousands, thousandth, thousandths. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Thousand" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: housane, Khorsandi, thausand, thoosand, thousa, thusand, tousand, trhousand. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Thousand"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "thousand" (pronounced thou"zund or thou"zun)
4-z u n demblazoned, imprisoned, poisoned, prisoned, reasoned, seasoned, wizened.
3-u n dabandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, worsened.
4-ou" z u nHausen.
3-z u narisen, artisan, bipartisan, brazen, chosen, citizen, cousin, crimson, denizen, dozen, emblazon, frozen, Hazan, horizon, imprison, Mizen, nonpartisan, partisan, poison, prison, reason, risen, rosin, season, treason, unfrozen, wizen.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Thousand

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: handouts.

Words within the letters "a-d-h-n-o-s-t-u"

-1 letter: astound, handout.

-2 letters: daunts, donuts, haunts, hondas, hounds, soudan, stound, unhats, unshod.

-3 letters: adust, aunts, autos, datos, daunt, dauts, doats, donas, donut, dunts, hadst, hands, hants, haunt, honda, hosta, hound, hunts, nodus, oaths, sadhu, santo, shoat, shout, shunt, snath, snout, sound, south, stand, thous, thuds, toads, tonus, tunas, unhat.

-4 letters: ados, ands, ants, anus.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-h-n-o-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: aunthoods, southland, staghound, thousands.

 

+2 letters: headcounts, outlandish, southlands, staghounds, thousandth.

 

+3 letters: thousandths.

 

+4 letters: dreadnoughts, housetrained, outlandishly, thousandfold.

 

+5 letters: custodianship, diathermanous, fountainheads.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Derived from
17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes
25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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