thousand times

1. 1.

   by three orders of magnitude

   “this poison is a thousand-fold more toxic”

   Synonymsthousand-fold

Questions about thousand times

What does thousand times mean?

thousand times means "by three orders of magnitude".

What is another word for thousand times?

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

thousand times 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.