millier

From French millier (“a thousand, a 1000-ish, 1000 kg”), from mille (“thousand”) + -ier (“-er”).

millier (plural milliers)

2. (archaic, rare) Synonym of metric ton, 1000 kg.

From mille (“one thousand”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.lje/

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millier m (plural milliers)

1. thousand; a number of about a thousand

   Il y avait un millier de personnes dans la foule. -- There were about a thousand people in the crowd.

• “millier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

millier oblique singular, m (oblique plural milliers, nominative singular milliers, nominative plural millier)

1. thousand; a number of about thousand.