thousandnumber
uk/ˈθaʊ.zənd/us/ˈθaʊ.zənd/plural thousand or thousandsA2 the number 1,000:
They had driven over a/one thousand miles.
The population of the village is about three thousand.
The damage will cost thousands of dollars to repair.
a thousand/thousands of sth B2 informal
a large number:
I have a thousand things to do before we go away.
the thousands
numbers between 1,000 and 1,000,000:
His latest work is expected to sell in the thousands.
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- Your essay should be no more than two thousand words long.
- Twelve thousand years ago, our ancestors were primitive savages living in caves.
- A thousand people took part in the region's biggest-ever cycle race.
- Our computer indexes several thousand new records every second.
- Accommodation needs to be found for thousands of homeless families.
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Numbers: cardinal, including nought & zero
- bn
- eighty
- eleven
- fifty
- five
- fourteen
- giga-
- googol
- hundred
- milliard
- million
- O, o
- oh
- seventy
- six
- ten
- thirty
- trillion
- twelve
- uni
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