Thou"sand , a.
1. Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.
2. Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. "Perplexed with a thousand cares."
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Thou"sand (?), n. [OE.
þousend, þusend, AS. þūsend; akin to OS.
thūsundig, thūsind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend,
OHG. tūsunt, dūsunt, Icel. þūsund, þūshund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth.
þūsundi, Lith. tukstantis, Russ.
tuisiacha; of uncertain origin.]
1. The number of ten
hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or
objects.
2. Hence,
indefinitely, a great number.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand.
Ps. xci. 7. &fist; The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note
under Hundred.
3. A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI&Crev;.
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