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Definition of Thousand times
1. Adverb. By three orders of magnitude. "This poison is a thousand-fold more toxic"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thousand Times
Literary usage of Thousand times
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"Ascanio meanwhile escaped to Tagliacozzo, to his home there, whence he wrote
begging a thousand times my pardon, and acknowledging his wrong in adding ..."
2. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"... certificates, memorials, and so forth, that, lost a thousand times in the
perplexing labyrinth, I was constrained to abandon them entirely. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... blessed me a thousand times, exclaiming that while I was away from him I had
made great progress, as he thought; and he begged me to go forwards, ..."
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