Large vs Thousand - What's the difference?

As an adjective large

is of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

As a noun large

is an old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.

As a numeral thousand is

a numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10^{3

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Adjective
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Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
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(obsolete) Abundant; ample.
* Milton
We have yet large day.
(archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
* Felton
I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.
(obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
* Fairfax
Of burdens all he set the Paynims large .
(obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
* Shakespeare
Some large jests he will make.
(nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

Synonyms
(checksyns)
* big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish
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Antonyms
* small, tiny, minuscule

Derived terms
* as large as life, larger than life
* by and large
* enlarge
* give it large
* have it large
* large it, large up, large it up
* largely
* largeness
* writ large
* largish

Noun

(music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
(obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
A thousand dollars.
Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large .

Derived terms
* at large

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1000 English basic words
200 English basic words

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Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
* Roman numerals: M
* ISO prefix: kilo-
* Exponential notation: 10³

Numeral
(en noun)

(cardinal) A numerical value equal to = 10 × 100 = 10³
The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
Many thousands of people came to the conference.

Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine'', the word ''thousand'' is a noun like ''dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral.
* a thousand''' men / one '''thousand''' men / the '''thousand men
* compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men
* compare ten men / the ten men
Thousand'' can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take ''-s when preceded by a determiner.
* two thousand''' men / some '''thousand men
* thousands''' of men / hundreds of '''thousands of men

Synonyms
* (numerical) a thousand, one thousand
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Derived terms
* hundreds and thousands, mother of thousands, Thousand Islands, thousandfold, thousandth, thousandaire

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