thousandfold

[ adjective thou-zuhnd-fohld; adverb thou-zuhnd-fohld ]

adjective

1. having a thousand elements or parts.
2. a thousand times as great or as much.

adverb

1. in a thousandfold manner or measure.

Word History and Origins

Origin of thousandfold¹

before 1000; Middle English thowsand folde, Old English thūsendfealde. See thousand, -fold

Example Sentences

We would be fully justified, were we not so casually indifferent, in repeating the question Eleanor Roosevelt posed over 85 years ago: “What has happened to us in this country? If we study our own history, we find that we have always been ready to receive the unfortunate from other countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have profited a thousandfold by what they have brought us.”

From Salon

Oliver is a scholarship student, but he helps Felix out of a jam, and his kindness is repaid a thousandfold.

From Salon

The man bought the scratchcard for 5 euros last month in a gas station, meaning his bet has been increased a hundred thousandfold.

From Reuters

This way, we created mRNA backbones with a more than thousandfold increased efficacy to trigger immune responses.

From Scientific American

Ebullient house DJ and producer Eric Prydz, long a favorite at dance music fests, finally built the audio-visual apparatus of his dreams with Holo, a 3-D mind-melter of a live production that promises to take the Tupac mirror trick and amp it up a thousandfold.

From Los Angeles Times