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thousandfold

UK/ˈθaʊzəndfəʊld/US/ˈθaʊzəndfoʊld/

thousandfold adjective: multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.

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.
    • [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.1857, [Thomas Hughes], “The War of Independence”, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 185
  2. Having one thousand parts or members.
    • Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125

Adverb

thousandfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of a thousand.

thousandfold meaning in Sanskrit

thousandfold in Sanskrit

thousandfold
साहस्र sāhasrá

Origin of thousandfold

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.

Words formed from thousandfold

Questions about thousandfold

What does thousandfold mean?
Thousandfold means multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.
What is thousandfold in Sanskrit?
Thousandfold in Sanskrit is साहस्र (sāhasrá). See Thousandfold meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is thousandfold?
Thousandfold can be an adjective or an adverb.
How do you pronounce thousandfold?
Thousandfold is pronounced /ˈθaʊzəndfəʊld/ (UK).

Words near thousandfold in the dictionary

  1. thousandaires
  2. thousandairess
  3. thousandairesses
  4. thousander
  5. thousanders
  6. thousandfold
  7. thousandfoldly
  8. thousandfolds
  9. thousandish
  10. thousands
  11. thousandsome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thousandfold (page history and authors); साहस्र (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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