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# thousand

«thousand» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 1,000: ten hundreds** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number; noun (a thousand, thousands)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thousand is the number 1,000: ten hundreds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#m1)

2) Thousands, or a thousand, can mean a very large number, not counted exactly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, a thousand is a place value: in 4,326 the 4 means four thousands. 10 × 100 = 1,000; 1,000 × 1,000 = one million. A kilometre is a thousand metres and a kilogram is a thousand grams. Large numbers are grouped in threes. In stories, «a thousand times» means very many times. Phrases: «a thousand», «one thousand», «thousands of», «in their thousands», «a thousand times».

### examples

- There are a thousand metres in a kilometre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#x1)
- Two thousand people came to the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#x2)
- Write three thousand and five in digits: 3,005. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#x3)
- Thousands of birds flew south. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#x4)
- I've told you a thousand times! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#x5)
- The castle is about a thousand years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#x6)
- Round 4,672 to the nearest thousand: 5,000. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#x7)
- A thousand grams make one kilogram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#x8)
- In a thousand years they will come! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/#x9)

### note

After a number, «thousand» has no -s: «five thousand», not «five thousands». «Thousands of» is used without a number before it. In maths problems «a thousand» = 1,000 and «thousands» as a place value is the fourth digit from the right. In the UK, 1,000 may be written 1 000 or 1000; the comma is a separator, not a decimal point.

### In the corpora

- [A deposit for buying a home is often tens of thousands of pounds, and saving for it can take years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/19/)
- [So common questions, like why the sky is blue, get good answers, because thousands of people have explained them well.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/3/)
- [A big film can need hundreds or even thousands of people, and the credits at the end list them all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/5/)
- [Emperor penguins find their partners and chicks among thousands of others by recognising their calls.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/6/)
- [Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thousand» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thousand/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.