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Chiliad definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHILIAD, n.
1. A thousand; a collection or sum, containing a thousand individuals or particulars.
2. The period of a thousand years.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Late Latin chiliad-, chilias, from Greek, from chilioi thousand Date: 1598 1. a group of 1000 2. millennium 2a

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a thousand. 2 a thousand years. Etymology: LL chilias chiliad- f. Gk khilias -ados

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chiliad Chil"i*ad, n. [Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? a thousand.] A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years. The world, then in the seventh chiliad, will be assumed up unto God. --Sir. T. More.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Thousand. 2. Thousand years, millenary, millennium, chiliasm.