thousand
A numerical value equal to 1,000; ten times a hundred (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation)
Number 1 meaning
A numerical value equal to 1,000; ten times a hundred (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation)
“The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.”
Etymology
From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).
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THOUSAND at a glance
THOUSAND has 8 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (T 1 + H 4 + O 1 + U 1 + S 1 + A 1 + N 1 + D 2) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,265 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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