chiliad

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“The Divine institution of a sabbatical, or seventh year’s solemnity among the Jews, has a plain typical reference to the seventh chiliad, or millenary of the world, according to the well known tradition among the

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  1. noun A group that contains 1,000 elements.
  2. noun One thousand years; a millennium.

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  1. Late Latin chīlias, chīliad-, from Greek khīlias, from khīlioi, thousand; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin chilias (chiliad-), from Greek χιλιάς (χιλιαδ-), a thousand in the aggregate, from χίλιοι, dial. χέλλιοι, χείλιοι, χηλίοι, plural, a thousand, perhaps = Sanskrit sahásra, a thousand. See kilo-.
 

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/ˈkɪlɪæd/
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