Million is a synonym of thousand.
As numerals the difference between thousand and million
is that thousand is a numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103million is the cardinal number 1,000,000: 106.
thousand
English
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
*
Derived terms
* hundreds and thousands, mother of thousands, Thousand Islands, thousandfold, thousandth, thousandaire
See also
*
Statistics
*
million
English
Numeral
(head)
The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106.
See also
* (short scale) Previous': thousand. ' Next : billion
* (long scale) Previous': thousand. ' Next : milliard
* (Ordinal) millionth
* ISO prefix: mega-
Derived terms
* like a million bucks
* megamillion
* millionary
* millionfold
* millionth
* millionaire
* never in a million years
* one in a million
* one million
* thanks a million
Related terms
* billion
* trillion
