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View synonyms for chiliad

chiliad

[ kil-ee-ad ]

noun

  1. a group of 1000.
  2. a period of 1000 years.


chiliad

/ ˈkɪlɪˌæd /

noun

  1. a group of one thousand
  2. one thousand years
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Derived Forms

  • ˌchiliˈadal, adjective
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Other Words From

  • chili·adal chili·adic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chiliad1

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

Origin of chiliad1

C16: from Greek khilias, from khilioi a thousand
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Example Sentences

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.

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.

Empires were lost, buried in chiliads of forgetfulness; would they ever be recovered?

Were life and death balanced? was her own soul chiliads old, forgetting its former existences, save as dim, undefinable reminiscences, flashed fitfully upon it?

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