n. [ OE. þousend, þusend, AS. þūsend; akin to OS. thūsundig, thūsind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend, OHG. tūsunt, dūsunt, Icel. þūsund, þūshund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth. þūsundi, Lith. tukstantis, Russ. tuisiacha; of uncertain origin. ] 1. The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, indefinitely, a great number. [ 1913 Webster ]

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. Ps. xci. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note under Hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1, 000, M or CI&Crev_;. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thousand

a. 1. Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. “Perplexed with a thousand cares.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thousandfold

a. Multiplied by a thousand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thousand legs

(Zool.) A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thousandth

a. 1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thousandth

n. The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

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