number

Thousand

Numbers & forms

A round thousand in decimal speech. Hosts, millennia, and “thousand gods” lists use the scale differently.

Also known as 1000

Hellenic religion

  • Thousand appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus’s histories count by thousands among armies and treasures. A named thousand in that traveler’s speech, not hundred and not a modern kilo dump.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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