thousandfold

English

Etymology

From Middle English thusendfold, thusendfeld, 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.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθaʊzəndfəʊld/

Adjective

thousandfold (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.
Having one thousand parts or members.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
  Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.

Translations

Repeated a thousand times

Armenian: հազարապատիկ (hy) (hazarapatik)
Finnish: tuhatkertainen
French: milluple (fr)

Italian: millecuplo m, millecupla f
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: please add this translation if you can

Adverb

thousandfold (not comparable)

By a factor of a thousand.

Translations

By a factor of a thousand

Finnish: tuhatkertainen

French: milluplement

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