English-French translations for thousand

• mille
  Il en faudrait cinq mille, dix mille, cent mille, je le sais bien. There really ought to be five thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand.
  Plus de mille personnes ont été tuées». Over a thousand people were murdered.'
  «Neuf mille producteurs de bananes ? 'Nine thousand banana producers?
• millier
  Bientôt, ce seront des milliers et des dizaines de milliers. Soon it will be thousands and tens of thousands.
  Des milliers de personnes ont perdu leur emploi. Thousands of jobs have been lost.
  Elles parcourent des milliers de kilomètres. They travel for thousands of miles.

Definition of thousand

• A numerical value equal to 1000|1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³

Examples

• The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
• Many thousands of people came to the conference.

Related words

• thousandth
• thousands
• thousandfold
• eight-thousander
• thousand-leaf
• ten-thousandth
• hundred-thousandth
• five-thousander
• thousand-seal