thousandfold

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UK/ˈθaʊzəndfəʊld/US/ˈθaʊzəndfoʊld/

adjective

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.”

OriginMiddle English thousendfold ← Old English þūsendfeald ← Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz →
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Meanings

adjectivethousandfold (not comparable)
  1. not comparableMultiplied 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.

    1 more example

    [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
  2. not comparableHaving 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
adverbthousandfold (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBy a factor of a thousand.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*þūsundīfalþaz
  2. Old Englishþūsendfeald
  3. Middle Englishthousendfold
  4. Englishthousandfold

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.

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Translations

Finnish tuhatkertainen, tuhatkertaisesti
  • tuhatkertainenRepeated a thousand times
  • tuhatkertaisestiBy a factor of a thousand
French milluple, milluplement
  • millupleRepeated a thousand times
  • milluplementBy a factor of a thousand
Italian millecuplo
  • millecuploRepeated a thousand times
Russian тысячекра́тный, тысячекра́тно
  • тысячекра́тный (tysjačekrátnyj)Repeated a thousand times
  • тысячекра́тно (tysjačekrátno)By a factor of a thousand
Turkish bin katı
  • bin katıRepeated a thousand times
Cite this entry
APA

thousandfold. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thousandfold

MLA

“thousandfold.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thousandfold. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thousandfold,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thousandfold.

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