# thousand

Pronunciation: say "THOW-zuhnd" US /ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/, UK /ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/

## Numeral

1. The number equal to ten hundred, written as 1,000 or 10³.
   - Simple: The number equal to ten times one hundred, written 1,000.
   - _The charity raised over a thousand dollars in a single afternoon._
   - _Nearly ten thousand runners registered for the marathon this year._
2. An indefinitely large number, used loosely to emphasize or exaggerate rather than to count anything. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A very big number that is not meant exactly, said to stress a point or make something sound bigger.
   - _If I've heard that excuse once, I've heard it a thousand times._
   - _He had a thousand questions about the trip and asked every one of them on the drive._

## Origin

From Middle English "thousend" and Old English "þūsend," going back through Proto-Germanic "*þūsundī" (source also of German "tausend," Dutch "duizend," and Swedish "tusen") to Proto-Indo-European roots seen in Lithuanian "tūkstantis" and Russian "týsjača."

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