The meaning of THOUSAND is a number equal to 10 times 100. How to use thousand in a sentence.
THOUSAND definition: 1. the number 1,000: 2. a large number: 3. numbers between 1,000 and 1,000,000: . Learn more.
A thousand or one thousand is the number 1,000. You can say that there are a thousand things or one thousand things. We'll give you a thousand dollars for the story. There was a ship about one thousand yards off shore. Be Careful!
Word forms: thousands language note: The plural form is thousand after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as 'several' or 'a few'.
Unlike cardinal numerals such as ten or ninety-nine (where one can say e.g. there were ten men present), the word thousand is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or another numeral to function as a numeral: one cannot say * there were thousand men present, but must say:
Mathematics thousands. the numbers between 1000 and 999,999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property damage was in the thousands. a great number or amount. Also, thou′sand's place′. Mathematics (in a mixed number) the position of the fourth digit to the left of the decimal point.
Definitions of thousand noun the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 synonyms: 1000, G, K, M, chiliad, grand, one thousand, thou, yard see more adjective denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
Large numbers are numbers above one million that are usually represented either with the use of an exponent such as 109 or by terms such as billion or thousand millions that frequently differ from system to system. The American system of numeration for denominations above one million was modeled on