thousand-fold

1. 1.

   by three orders of magnitude

   “this poison is a thousand-fold more toxic”

   Synonymsthousand times

Questions about thousand-fold

What does thousand-fold mean?

thousand-fold means "by three orders of magnitude".

How many syllables are in thousand-fold?

thousand-fold has 3 syllables and divides as thou-sand--fold under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for thousand-fold?

Close synonyms include thousand times. 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-fold a common word?

thousand-fold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.