thousand

1. 1.

   denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

   Synonymsone thousand1000mk

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of thousand

plural

thousands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thousand

What does thousand mean?

thousand means "the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thousand?

thousand has 2 syllables: thou-sand. The stress falls on "thou". In IPA it is /ˈθaʊzənd/.

What is another word for thousand?

Close synonyms include one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thousand a common word?

thousand is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.