thousand

A2 Topic:Numbers & Quantity

Also spelled thousan, thous’n, and thous’n’s

US /ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/ UK /ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/ See IPA manual

Freq #1081

Meanings

1

num
The number 1,000.

The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
2

noun
A very large number of people or things.

There were thousands of people at the concert.

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Synonyms

1 num · the number 1,000. one thousand

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Etymology

From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjač…

*tewh₂- Proto-Indo-European thousend Middle English þūsend Old English *þūsundi Proto-West Germanic *þūsundī Proto-Germanic *tuHsont- Proto-Indo-European

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# thousand

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** num, noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/
**Frequency rank:** 1081

## Meanings
1. The number 1,000.
2. A very large number of people or things.

## Examples
- The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
- There were thousands of people at the concert.

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *tewh₂-
- Root: thousend
- Root: þūsend
- Root: *þūsundi
- Root: *þūsundī
- Root: *tuHsont-

## Etymology
From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjač…

## AI Etymology
Thousand is from Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti-.

## Topics
- Numbers & Quantity

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