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Translingual

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IPA^(key): [ˈtau̯zand],[ˈtau̯ˈzand]^[1]^[2]
Audio(American English accent): (file)

Noun

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thousand

(international standards)NATO,ICAO,ITU &IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) forthousand.

Usage notes

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Used when reciting distances (including altitudes), but not for serial numbers. Thus 10,946 m isone zerothousand nine four six meter but a serial number 10946 is read simply as its digits:one zero nine four six.

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes
Alfa	Bravo	Charlie	Delta	Echo	Foxtrot	Golf	Hotel	India	Juliett	Kilo	Lima	Mike
November	Oscar	Papa	Quebec	Romeo	Sierra	Tango	Uniform	Victor	Whiskey	Xray	Yankee	Zulu
zero	one	two	three(tree)	four(fower)	five(fife)	six	seven	eight	nine(niner)	hundred	thousand	decimal

References

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^International Maritime Organisation (2005).International Code of Signals. Fourth edition, London.
^Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status‎^[1], 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, 2001 October, archived fromthe original on31 March 2019, page§5.2.1.4.3.1

English

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**English numbers^(edit)**
		10,000^[a],[b]
← 100	← 900	1,000	1,100 →	2,000 →
		100
Cardinal:thousand Ordinal:thousandth Abbreviated ordinal:1000th Multiplier:thousandfold Germanic collective:chiliad Metric collective prefix:kilo- Metric fractional prefix:milli- Number of years:millennium,kiloannum,kiloyear

Alternative forms

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Arabic numerals:1000(see for numerical forms in other scripts)
Roman numerals:M
ISO prefix:kilo-
Exponential notation: 10³

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishthousend,thusand, fromOld Englishþūsend(“thousand”), fromProto-West Germanic*þūsundi, fromProto-Germanic*þūsundī(“thousand”), (compareScotsthousand(“thousand”),Saterland Frisianduusend(“thousand”),West Frisiantûzen(“thousand”),Dutchduizend(“thousand”),Germantausend(“thousand”),Danishtusind(“thousand”),Swedishtusen(“thousand”),Norwegiantusen(“thousand”),Icelandicþúsund(“thousand”),Faroesetúsund(“thousand”)), fromProto-Indo-European*tuHsont-,*tuHsenti- (compareLithuaniantūkstantis(“thousand”),Polishtysiąc,Russianты́сяча(týsjača),Finnishtuhat,Estoniantuhat).

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/
(General American)enPR:thou′zənd,IPA^(key): /ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/,[ˈθaʊ̯zn̩d]
Audio(General American): (file)
Hyphenation:thou‧sand

Numeral

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thousand (pluralthousands)

Anumericalvalue equal to1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)
The company earned fiftythousand dollars last month.
Manythousands of people came to the conference.
- 1889,Charles Taze Russell,The Time Is At Hand‎^[2],Allegheny, PA:Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, published1907,→OCLC,→OL,page36:
  Threethousand years back in the Babylonian, Syrian, and Egyptian histories brings us to a period where their records are fragmentary and involved in great obscurity. In the history of China, it brings us to the Tchou dynasty, where the events of Chinese history "begin to be more trustworthy."
- 1995, John December, quoting Craig Jackson,The World Wide Web Unleashed, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams.net,→ISBN, page450:
  The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncountedthousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.

Usage notes

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Unlike cardinal numerals such asten orninety-nine (where one can say e.g.there were ten men present), the wordthousand is a noun likedozen and needs a determiner or another numeral to function as a numeral: one cannot say *there were thousand men present, but must say:

there were athousand men / onethousand men / forty-threethousand men present
one can also speak ofthethousand men,severalthousand men, orsomethousand men who were present
comparea dozen men / one dozen men / forty-three dozen men,the dozen men,several dozen men,some dozen men

When preceded by a determiner or numeral and followed byof, it can be singular or plural:

twothousand of the inhabitants died,severalthousand of the inhabitants fled
manythousands of women marched
"Aragorn should find some twothousands of those that he had gathered to him in the South; but Imrahil should find three and a half thousands; and Éomer five hundreds of the Rohirrim who were unhorsed but themselves warworthy." (J.R.R. Tolkien,The Return of the King)

When followed byof and not preceded by a determiner or numeral, it must be pluralized with-s:thousands of women protested,countlessthousands of women voted, not *thousand of women.

In Malaysian English, 1100, 1200, and other numbers combining a thousand and hundreds are known asthousand one,thousand two,thousand three, and so on.