How to use thousand in a sentence. Numbers between 1,000 and 1,000,000 The plural form is thousand after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as 'several' or 'a few'. Thousands of women protested, countless thousands of women voted, not * thousand of women. 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 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 Mathematics (in a mixed number) the position of the fourth digit to the left of the decimal point.
1000, g, k, m, chiliad, grand, one thousand, thou, yard see more adjective denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units Definition of thousand number in oxford advanced learner's dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. A thousand is a number equal to 10 times 100. She tried on thousands of dresses but didn't like any of them (definition of thousand from the cambridge learner's dictionary © cambridge university press)
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