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chiliad
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chiliad has 1 sense
- chiliad(n = noun.quantity) 1000, g, grand, k, m, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard - the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100; Array is a kind of large integer
has particulars: millenary
CIDE DICTIONARY
chiliad, n. [Gr. chilia`s, chiliado`s, fr. chi`lioi a thousand.].
A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years. [1913 Webster]
"The world, then in the seventh chiliad, will be assumed up unto God."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chiliad, n.
1 a thousand.
2 a thousand years.
1 a thousand.
2 a thousand years.
Etymology
LL chilias chiliad- f. Gk khilias -ados
ROGET THESAURUS
chiliad
Five
N five, five, cinque, quint, quincux, six, half-a- dozen, half dozen, seven, eight, nine, three times three, dicker, ten, decade, eleven, twelve, dozen, thirteen, long dozen, baker's dozen, quintuplet, twenty, score, twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen, twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred, forty, two score, fifty, half a hundred, sixty, three score, seventy, three score and ten, eighty, four score, ninety, fourscore and ten, sestiad, hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century, hundredweight, cwt, one hundred and forty-four, gross, thousand, chiliad, millennium, thousand years, grand, myriad, ten thousand, ban, man, ten thousand years, banzai, lac, one hundred thousand, plum, million, thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion, five, quinary, quintuple, fifth, senary, sextuple, sixth, seventh, septuple, octuple, eighth, ninefold, ninth, tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth, eleventh, duodenary, duodenal, twelfth, in one's 'teens, thirteenth, vicesimal, vigesimal, twentieth, twenty-fourth, vicenary, vicennial, centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial, secular, hundredth, thousandth.
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