chiliad

American  

[kil-ee-ad] / ˈkɪl iˌæd /

noun

1. a group of 1000.

2. a period of 1000 years.

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chiliad British  

/ ˈkɪlɪˌæd /

noun

1. a group of one thousand

2. one thousand years

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Other Word Forms

• chiliadal adjective
• chiliadic adjective

Etymology

Origin of chiliad

1590–1600; < Late Latin chīliad- (stem of chīlias ) < Greek, equivalent to chī́li ( oi ) 1000 + -ad- -ad ¹

Example Sentences

In a sense, the millennium is Bill Clinton's larger theater; for him there is a balm in chiliad.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the oldest primitive times, by the Turanian-Cushite or North African kingdom of Nimrod, which cannot be placed later than in the seventh chiliad.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh in 1617 he accordingly published the first chiliad of his logarithms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various