thousands
Multiple units of 1,000
Thousands is the plural of thousand, referring to quantities in the range of multiple thousands—from two thousand to just under a million.
The word often emphasizes large but imprecise numbers: Thousands gathered for the protest, The repair will cost thousands.
In the phrase by the thousands, it suggests overwhelming quantity: Refugees arrived by the thousands.
Extremely large number
- legionGreat number, or soldiers
- hordesVery large crowds
- massesBulk or populace
- swarmsGathers in vast numbers
throngs · droves · crowds · flocks · herds · armies · hosts · seas
Too numerous to count
- innumerableToo many to count
- untoldNot revealed or measured
- numerousExisting in great quantity
- umpteenIndefinitely large number
scads · oodles · loads · heaps · tons · gazillions · zillions · bajillions
Groups of one hundred
- millionsNumbers in seven figures
- billionsThousands of millions
- trillionsThousands of billions
- scoresAchieves points; many
dozens · tens · fifties · numerals · digits · figures · numbers · amounts
Numbers in seven figures
- billionsThousands of millions
- gazillionsHyperbolic huge quantity
- zillionsInformal term for countless
- bajillionsPlayful term for countless
umpteen · infinite · endless · limitless · boundless · astronomical · incalculable · immeasurable
Those who observe events
- attendeesPeople at an event
- protestersThose publicly opposing something
- marchersThose who walk together
- demonstratorsPublic protest participants
fans · supporters · pilgrims · refugees · migrants · commuters · voters · mourners
myriad
Extremely large number
swarms · throngs · droves · crowds · flocks · herds · armies · hosts · seas · waves
countless
Too numerous to count
- innumerableToo many to count
- untoldNot revealed or measured
- numerousExisting in great quantity
umpteen · scads · oodles · loads · heaps · tons · gazillions · zillions · bajillions · gobs
hundreds
Groups of one hundred
scores · dozens · tens · fifties · numerals · digits · figures · numbers · amounts · sums
millions
Numbers in seven figures
- billionsThousands of millions
- gazillionsHyperbolic huge quantity
- zillionsInformal term for countless
bajillions · umpteen · infinite · endless · limitless · boundless · astronomical · incalculable · immeasurable · unfathomable
spectators
Those who observe events
- attendeesPeople at an event
- protestersThose publicly opposing something
- marchersThose who walk together
demonstrators · fans · supporters · pilgrims · refugees · migrants · commuters · voters · mourners · revelers
- number wordspair, duo, trio, quartet, quintet
- quantitiessome, many, few, amount, several
- place valueplace value, ones, tens, hundreds, millions
- multiplicationmultiplication, multiply, product, times tables, multiplier
- number typesprime numbers, natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers
- math termsnumbers, plus or minus, linear growth, square, operand
- one thousandTen hundred
- ten thousand10,000
- two thousandNumber after 1999
- cast of thousandsEnormous group of performers
- five thousand5K in digits
- three thousandNumber after 2,999