number (plural verb) (abbreviation K)
1 1000
HELPNOTE You say a, one, two, etc. thousand without a final 's' on 'thousand'. Thousands (of...) can be used if there is no number or quantity before it. Always use a plural verb with thousand or thousands.
2 a thousand or thousands (of...) (usually informal) a large number:
There were thousands of people there.
3 (the thousands) the numbers from 1000 to 9999:
The cost ran into the thousands.
HELPNOTE There are more examples of how to use numbers at the entry for hundred.
IDIOMS see BATv.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for thousand is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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Yes — thousand appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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