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chiliad
[kil-ee-ad]
noun
a group of 1000.
a period of 1000 years.
chiliad
/ ˈɪɪˌæ /
noun
a group of one thousand
one thousand years
Other Word Forms
- chiliadal adjective
- chiliadic adjective
- ˌˈ岹 adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of chiliad1
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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