thou ‧ sand /ˈθaʊz ə nd/ BrE AmE number ( plural thousand or thousands )
[ Language: Old English ; Origin: thusend ]
1 . the number 1,000:
a journey of almost a thousand miles
two/three/four etc thousand
five thousand dollars
The company employs 30 thousand people.
2 . an extremely large number of things or people
a thousand
I’ve been this route a thousand times before.
thousands of
There are thousands of things I want to do.
—thousandth adjective :
the thousandth anniversary of the founding of the city
—thousandth noun [countable]