Usage Note
Millier is a collective noun, always used with de to indicate roughly a thousand of something — un millier de personnes means 'around a thousand people'. Unlike mille, it implies approximation. The plural milliers is common in expressions like des milliers de ('thousands of').
Examples
"Des milliers de gens sont venus."
Natural Translation
Thousands of people came.
Literal Translation
Of thousands of people are come
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