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TEN THOUSAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("ten thousand" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Denoting a quantity consisting of 10,000 items or units
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
The flying or floating island is exactly circular, its diameter 7837 yards, or about four miles and a half, and consequently contains ten thousand acres.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There were ten thousand rebels round us, and they were as keen as a set of terriers round a rat-cage.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The team’s calculations revealed that this static charge can reach ten thousand volts in some materials, like the Teflon suits used in the Apollo lunar missions.
(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)
There might be only ten thousand people in a country, yet their collective judgment and will would be the law of that country. Why, then, could not one thousand people constitute such a group? she asked herself. And if one thousand, why not one hundred? Why not fifty? Why not five? Why not—two?
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He was now esteemed quite worthy to address the daughter of a foolish, spendthrift baronet, who had not had principle or sense enough to maintain himself in the situation in which Providence had placed him, and who could give his daughter at present but a small part of the share of ten thousand pounds which must be hers hereafter.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Deef I am, and dumb, as ye should be for the sake iv your mother; an’ never once have I opened me lips but to say fine things iv them an’ him, God curse his soul, an’ may he rot in purgatory ten thousand years, and then go down to the last an’ deepest hell iv all!
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But, when we went into the room, and it turned pale, she was ten thousand times prettier yet.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They will have ten thousand pounds divided amongst them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Ten thousand a year, and very likely more!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And White Fang won out on the one chance in ten thousand denied him by the surgeon.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
