Thousand vs. Million

Thousand vs. Million — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Thousand and Million

Thousandnumeral

A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103

The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.Many thousands of people came to the conference.

Millionnoun

The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106; a thousand thousand.

Thousandnoun

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Millionnoun

A very large number.

I told you a million times before.

Thousandadjective

denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

Millionnoun

the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros

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Millionadjective

(in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units