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THOUSAND

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Synonyms:

1000; chiliad; G; grand; K; M; one thousand; thou; thousand; yard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("thousand" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thousand"):

millenary (a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years))

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

Synonyms:

1000; k; m; one thousand; thousand

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

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 Context examples: 

Let me hear from you without delay; I am impatient for a thousand particulars.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

My Tita would have been dragged away, and my head would have been shivered into a thousand fragments.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had totally forgotten him. My dear Watson, I owe you a thousand apologies.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It amounted, if I am correctly informed, to five thousand pounds to anyone who will tell you where your son is?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A visit to the bank, where several thousand pounds were found to be lying to the murderer’s credit, completed his gratification.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She has only to fix on her number of thousands a year, and there can be no doubt of their coming.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Well, Challenger, what will you do with your fifty thousand?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A derived unit expressed as a number of cells in hundreds of thousands per unit of mass equal to one kilogram.

(Hundred Thousand Cells per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)

He did not know whether Buck could start a thousand pounds.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)