chiliad
Americannoun
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a group of 1000.
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a period of 1000 years.
noun
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a group of one thousand
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one thousand years
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Etymology
Origin of chiliad
1590–1600; < Late Latin chīliad- (stem of chīlias ) < Greek, equivalent to chī́li ( oi ) 1000 + -ad- -ad 1
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Example Sentences
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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
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