Thousand

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈθaʊzənd/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈθaʊzənd/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(thouzənd)

Inflections of 'thousand' (n):
thousands
npl (Used without preceding number––e.g. "There were thousands of people present.")
thousand
npl (Used after a number, e.g.––"There are three thousand of them.")
WordReference Collins English Usage © 2025
thousand
A thousand or one thousand is the number 1,000.
You can say that there are a thousand things or one thousand things.
We'll give you a thousand dollars for the story.
There was a ship about one thousand yards off shore.
Be careful
Don't say that there are ‘thousand’ things.
Be careful
Don't change the word thousand when you put another number in front of it. Don't say, for example, ‘five thousands’. Say ‘five thousand’.
I'll pay you seven thousand dollars.
We have five thousand acres.
Numbers and fractions
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