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thousand pardons

thousand pardons interjection: a conventionally polite request to be pardoned or excused.

Interjection

thousand pardons

  1. A conventionally polite request to be pardoned or excused.
    • His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 110

Questions about thousand pardons

What does thousand pardons mean?
Thousand pardons means a conventionally polite request to be pardoned or excused.
What part of speech is thousand pardons?
Thousand pardons is an interjection.

Words near thousand pardons in the dictionary

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  5. Thousand Palms
  6. thousand pardons
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  9. thousand-headed cabbage
  10. thousand-leaf
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