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ten thousand

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Noun1.ten thousandten thousand - the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
10000, myriad
large integer - an integer equal to or greater than ten
Adj.1.ten thousand - denoting a quantity consisting of 10,000 items or units
cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"


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From species to genus, as: 'Verily ten thousand noble deeds hath Odysseus wrought'; for ten thousand is a species of large number, and is here used for a large number generally.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
1610, a fact which proved that they were guilders of Van Baerle the father and of Van Baerle the grandfather; but we will inform the reader at once that these three or four hundred thousand guilders were only the pocket money, or sort of purse, for Cornelius van Baerle, the hero of this story, as his landed property in the province yielded him an income of about ten thousand guilders a year.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
The Florentines, being entirely without arms, sent ten thousand Frenchmen to take Pisa, whereby they ran more danger than at any other time of their troubles.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
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