thousandfold
/ˈθaʊzəndfoʊld/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.
adj
adv
By a factor of a thousand.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈθaʊzəndfoʊld/
- British English: /ˈθaʊzəndfəʊld/