How to use thousand in a sentence. A thousand units of currency, especially dollars or pounds, are colloquially called a grand In the united states, this is sometimes abbreviated with a g suffix. Numbers between 1,000 and 1,000,000 A thousand or one thousand is the number 1,000 You can say that there are a thousand things or one thousand things
We'll give you a thousand dollars for the story There was a ship about one thousand yards off shore A thousand or onethousand is the number 1,000 Five thousand people went to the event. Definition of thousand number in oxford advanced american dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of thousand noun the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 synonyms 1000, g, k, m, chiliad, grand, one thousand, thou, yard see more adjective denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units The numbers between 1000 and 999,999, as in referring to an amount of money Property damage was in the thousands A great number or amount Mathematics (in a mixed number) the position of the fourth digit to the left of the decimal point.
There are ten meanings listed in oed's entry for the word thousand, one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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