thousandfold en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈθaʊzəndfəʊld/ (UK)
- /ˈθaʊzəndfoʊld/ (General-American)
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.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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:
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(not-comparable) 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:
Translations (7)
hy հազարապատիկ (Repeated a thousand times) · fr milluple (Repeated a thousand times) · ru тысячекра́тный (Repeated a thousand times) · it millecuplo (Repeated a thousand times) · enm thousendfold (Repeated a thousand times) · fi tuhatkertainen (Repeated a thousand times) · tr bin katı (Repeated a thousand times)