How to use thousand in a sentence. Related words and phrases (definition of thousand from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press) 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.
Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the oxford english dictionary 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) 100,000 (one hundred thousand) is the natural number following 99,999 and preceding 100,001 In scientific notation, it is written as 10 5.
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