| Thousand | 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Hence, indefinitely, a great number. [ 1913 Webster ] A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. Ps. xci. 7. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note under Hundred. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1, 000, M or CI&Crev_;. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Thousandth | a. 1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time. [ 1913 Webster ] |
