thousand
A numerical value equal to 1,000A numerical value equal to 1,000; ten times a hundred (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation)
» There were about one thousand people.
Dort waren ungefähr tausend Menschen.
Es waren ungefähr tausend Leute da.
Там было около тысячи человек.
Була приблизно тисяча людей.
Meaning
1 sensesA numerical value equal to 1,000; ten times a hundred (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation)
The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
Many thousands of people came to the conference.
tausend
ты́сячаtýsjača
ти́сячаtýsjača
Examples
1380 sentencesThere were about one thousand people.
Була приблизно тисяча людей. — aandrusiak
ruТам было около тысячи человек. — marafon
deDort waren ungefähr tausend Menschen. — Esperantostern
Over three thousand people attended the concert.
На концерті було присутньо більше 3000 чоловік. — rmdas
ruНа концерте присутствовало более 3000 человек. — Hellerick
deMehr als dreitausend Leute waren bei dem Konzert. — Tamy
A thousand dollars is a large sum.
Тисяча доларів - це велика сума. — deniko
ruТысяча долларов — это большая сумма. — FeuDRenais
deTausend Dollar sind eine große Summe. — Tamy
We can see thousands of stars in the sky.
На небі можна побачити тисячі зірок. — Ahha
ruМы можем видеть тысячи звёзд в небе. — MsNice
deWir können Tausende von Sternen am Himmel sehen. — Espi
One thousand dollars will cover all the expenses for the party.
Тисяча доларів покриє всі затрати на вечірку. — deniko
ruШтука баксов покроет все затраты на вечеринку. — timsa
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-WeFrom 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 (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).
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Synonyms
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Collocations
12 patterns- thousand dollars
- three thousand dollars
- thousand yen
- three thousand
- ten thousand yen
- thousands of people
- ten thousand
- three thousand people
- thousand times times
- over three thousand
- thirty thousand dollars
- one thousand dollars