thousand
/ˈθaʊzənd/
noun
The number 1000
“A thousand people came to the concert.”
אלף
Thousand is a noun in the numbers category. It is a advanced (ages 11-12) word, meaning "The number 1000" In Hebrew, thousand translates to אלף.
Example Sentences
- The city has thousands of people living and working in it.
- The ancient temple was built over a thousand years ago.
- She found a thousand-piece puzzle in the cupboard and spent all week solving it.
Did You Know? A thousand has three zeros (1,000). Light travels about 300,000 kilometers per second — that means in just one second, light could travel around the entire Earth more than seven times! If you counted to one thousand out loud without stopping, it would take you about fifteen minutes.
Common Word Combinations
a thousand timesthousands ofone thousandthousand years
Related Words
millionhundredbillioncountless
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