one thousand thousand
Definition
- Noun:
- The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros: The cardinal number equal to 1,000,000. It is a specific, large numerical value.
Usage
- The word "one thousand thousand" is a compound numeral phrase used to explicitly denote the quantity of one million. It is often used for emphasis, clarification, or in educational contexts to break down the concept of a million into more familiar units (thousands). It functions grammatically as a singular noun phrase.
Examples
- Noun:
- The population of the city is approximately one thousand thousand.
- A million dollars is equivalent to one thousand thousand dollars.
Advanced Usage
- While "million" is the standard and more common term, "one thousand thousand" can be used in formal writing, legal documents, or speech to avoid ambiguity or to stress the magnitude by relating it to a more comprehensible unit (the thousand).
- It can sometimes be found in historical or literary texts.
Variants and Related Words
- Million (n): The standard and most common term for the number 1,000,000.
- Meg (n, informal/slang): An informal abbreviation for a million, often used in finance (e.g., "ten meg" for ten million dollars).
- Milliard (n, archaic/British): An old term for one thousand million (1,000,000,000), now largely replaced by "billion" in modern English.
Synonyms
- Million: The direct and primary synonym.
- 10^6: The mathematical/ scientific notation.
Notes
- "One thousand thousand" is not typically used in idioms or phrasal verbs. Such expressions almost exclusively use the word "million" (e.g., "one in a million," "feel like a million bucks").
- It is a compound numeral and is not used with articles differently than "million" (e.g., "a one thousand thousand" or "one thousand thousand").
- This phrase is a literal descriptor of the number's value.
Noun
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the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
