The meaning of thousand is a number equal to 10 times 100 In scientific notation, it is written as 10 5. How to use thousand in a sentence.
Numbers between 1,000 and 1,000,000 100,000 (one hundred thousand) is the natural number following 99,999 and preceding 100,001 The plural form is thousand after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as 'several' or 'a few'.
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
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.
1000, g, k, m, chiliad, grand, one thousand, thou, yard see more adjective denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units She tried on thousands of dresses but didn't like any of them (definition of thousand from the cambridge learner's dictionary © cambridge university press) Related words and phrases (definition of thousand from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press)
