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The number 1,000, equal to ten times one hundred.
"The stadium held a thousand spectators."
"She has read over a thousand books in her lifetime."
How to Use Thousand
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe number 1,000.
Common pairings
thousands of
a thousand times
one in a thousand
Word Forms
thousands plural
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Etymology
From Old English þūsend, from a very old Germanic word for "thousand," found with similar forms across Germanic languages such as German tausend and Dutch duizend.