thousandfold

English

English numbers (edit)
10,000[a], [b]
 ←  100 1,000
100
    Cardinal: thousand
    Ordinal: thousandth
    Multiplier: thousandfold
    Group collective: chiliad
    Metric collective prefix: kilo-
    Metric fractional prefix: milli-
    Number of years: millennium, kiloannum, kiloyear

Etymology

From Middle English thousendfold, from Old English þūsendfeald, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz, corresponding to thousand + -fold. Cognate with Dutch duizendvoud, duizendvoudig, German tausendfältig, Danish tusindfold, Swedish tusendfalt, tusendfaltig, Icelandic þúsundfalt.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈθaʊzəndfəʊld/

Adjective

thousandfold (not comparable)

  1. Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.
    The changes to the algorithm resulted in a thousandfold increase in efficiency, earning the engineer a small brass plaque.
    • 1857, [Thomas Hughes], “The War of Independence”, in Tom Brown’s School Days. [], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 185:
      [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.
  2. Having one thousand parts or members.

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Adverb

thousandfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of a thousand.

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