thousand one

English

English numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000	1,001	1,100  →
Cardinal: one thousand and one, one thousand one, thousand and one, thousand one     Ordinal: one thousand and first, thousand-and-first, thousand-first

Alternative forms

• (US) thousand one, one thousand one, a thousand one
• (UK) thousand and one, one thousand and one, a thousand and one
• Arabic numerals: 1001; Roman numerals: MI; Greek numerals: ͵ΑΑ΄

Numeral

thousand one

1. (US) One thousand plus one.
2. (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).
3. (informal) A great number.

   I have a thousand and one things to do today.

4. (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".

Translations

one thousand plus one

• Dutch: duizend een, duizend en een
• Finnish: tuhatyksi (fi)
• French: mille un
• Georgian: ათას ერთი (atas erti)
• Italian: mille uno
• Lakota: kȟoktá sáŋm waŋží
• Malay: seribu satu
• Malayalam: ആയിരത്തൊന്ന് (āyirattonnŭ), ആയിരത്തിയൊന്ന് (āyirattiyonnŭ)
• Navajo: tʼááłáhádí mííl tʼááłáʼí

thousand-first

• Finnish: tuhannesensimmäinen
• French: mille et unième (for things in a sequence), mille un
• Italian: millunesimo (for things in a sequence), mille uno

great number

• Finnish: tuhat ja yksi
• French: mille et un (fr) m, mille et une (fr) f

Anagrams

• one thousand