transcription, транскрипция: [ θaʊz(ə)nd ]
( thousands)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: The plural form is 'thousand' after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’.
1.
A thousand or one thousand is the number 1,000.
...five thousand acres...
Visitors can expect to pay about a thousand pounds a day.
NUM : usu a / num NUM
2.
If you refer to thousands of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
Thousands of refugees are packed into over-crowded towns and villages...
QUANT : QUANT of pl-n [ emphasis ]
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You can also use thousands as a pronoun.
Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless.
PRON
3.
a thousand and one: see one