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thousand one
- (US) One thousand plus one.
- (informal) The ordinality of an element whose predecessor is thousandth; usually called thousand-first (US) or thousand-and-first (UK) but sometimes number thousand one (US) or number thousand and one (UK).
- (informal) A great number.
- I have a thousand and one things to do today.
- (Malaysia, colloquial) One thousand plus one hundred. (1100)
Usage notes
In Malaysian English, 1100, 1200, and other numbers combining a thousand and hundreds are known as "thousand one", "thousand two", "thousand three", and so on. The last of these, 1900, is therefore known as "thousand nine".
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