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one thousand and one en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A great many; numerous.
    • The same as me, when I learnt the trade (in the pottery industry) there were one thousand and one things that seemed insignificant in that job, but they all amounted into one big thing. 1980, Pauline Hunt, Gender and Class Consciousness, page 27:
    • But poor fool, he did not know until that minute that there were one thousand and one reasons why a new building should not be assessed so much as an old one. 1907, League of Iowa Municipalities, Midland Municipalities, page 10:
    • The women have one thousand and one reasons/causes/factors /justifications for their indulgence in immoral traffic or prostitution. 2000, James Vadackumchery, Police, Women and Gender Justice, page 71:

Synonyms

one hundred and one