Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group that contains 1,000 elements.
- noun One thousand years; a millennium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thousand; the numbers from one multiple of a thousand to the next.
- noun Specifically The period of a thousand years.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a group of 1000 things
- noun a period of 1000 years; a
millennium
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The subject rose into importance again at the approaching close of the first chiliad of Christianity, but soon died away as the excitement of that ominous epoch passed with equal disappointment to the hopes and the fears of the believers.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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African kingdom of Nimrod, which cannot be placed later than in the seventh chiliad.
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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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
A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse Sylvester Bliss 1838
sionnach commented on the word chiliad
Weirdnet!!!
April 9, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word chiliad
(n.) a period of a thousand years; also group of 1000.
August 28, 2009
yarb commented on the word chiliad
Agamemnon: Achilles! come, let us sack Troy!
Achilles: Leave it! I just want to chill.
August 28, 2009
reesetee commented on the word chiliad
I like to imagine that this refers to a triad of delicious chilis: Texas, Cincinnati, and Louisville.
August 28, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word chiliad
I think it's a competitive chili-off. You know, *intones in stentorian voice* "The games... of the twenty-third Chiliad...."
August 28, 2009
reesetee commented on the word chiliad
I can actually hear the echo....
August 31, 2009
qms commented on the word chiliad
Take comfort in views chiliastic:
Stay calm and do nothing drastic.
Though things may be bad
In this chiliad
The next one will sure be fantastic.
March 19, 2015
bilby commented on the word chiliad
Great name for my new thousand-chilies-a-day diet.
August 7, 2015