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thousand
Translingual
Etymology
From English thousand
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?tau?zænd] [sic]
Numeral
thousand
- Code word for combinations of thousand (that is, the digits 000 or the thousands spacer) in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet
- one zero thousand nine four six meter (10,946 m)
Usage notes
The code word 'thousand' is used when reciting distances (including altitudes), but not for serial numbers. That is, a serial number 10,946 would be read simply as its digits: one zero nine four six.
References
English
Alternative forms
- Arabic numerals: 1000 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: M
- ISO prefix: kilo-
- Exponential notation: 103
Etymology
From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þ?send (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þ?sundi, from Proto-Germanic *þ?sund? (“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 t?kstantis (“thousand”), Russian ??????? (týsja?a)).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??a?z?nd/, IPA(key): [??a?zn?d]
- (US) enPR: thou?z?nd, IPA(key): /??a?z(?)nd/, [??a??z??nd]
- Hyphenation: thou?sand
Numeral
thousand (plural thousands)
- A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103
Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals such as ten or ninety-nine (where one can say e.g. there were ten men present), the word thousand is a noun like dozen 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 a thousand men / one thousand men / forty-three thousand men present
- one can also speak of the thousand men, several thousand men, or some thousand men who were present
- compare a 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 by of, it can be singular or plural:
- two thousand of the inhabitants died, several thousand of the inhabitants fled
- many thousands of women marched
- "Aragorn should find some two thousands 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 by of and not preceded by a determiner or numeral, it must be pluralized with -s: thousands of women protested, countless thousands of women voted, not *thousand of women.
Synonyms
- (numerical): a thousand, one thousand
Derived terms
See also
- Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds
Descendants
- ? Hawaiian: kaukani
Translations
Anagrams
- handouts, hands out
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birthrate
English
Alternative forms
- birth rate
Etymology
From birth +? rate
Noun
birthrate (plural birthrates)
- The ratio of total live births to total population for a specific community or nation in a specified period; often expressed in births per thousand per year
Synonyms
- natality
Antonyms
- death rate
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