K5Print Free printable worksheets for K–5

thousand

  • numeral
  • thou·sand
  • thou′zənd

A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103 (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)

Example

“The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.”

Related words

  • one thousand
  • two thousand
  • three thousand
  • four thousand
  • five thousand
  • six thousand
  • seven thousand
  • eight thousand
  • nine thousand
  • ten thousand
  • one hundred thousand
  • hundred thousand

Example sentences

  • “A handful of bees is worth a thousand wasps.”

    Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0

  • “The sea holds the stories of a thousand lifetimes.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

  • “It's hard to properly interpret a book written thousands of years ago.”

    Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Word history

From Old English "þūsend".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “thousand” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.