詞根的派生詞是,詞根thou+詞綴sand ,中文意思是pron. 成千上萬,num. (數字)一千許許多多,數以千計千位數
例如
He was one of the few thousand committed Rastafarians in South Africa.他是南非僅有的幾千名虔誠的拉斯塔法裏教徒之一。
The system produced enough energy to heat several thousand homes.系統產生的能量足以給幾千户人家供暖。