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Definition of Chiliad

1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.

Definition of Chiliad

1. n. A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.

Definition of Chiliad

1. Noun. a group of 1000 things ¹

2. Noun. a period of 1000 years; a millennium ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chiliad

1. a group of one thousand [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiliad

Literary usage of Chiliad

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1880)
"Gauss states that the chiliad in Lambert's Supplementa between 101000 and 102000 "swarmed with errors;" seven composite numbers in this chiliad were given ..."

2. The Origin and Antiquity of Our English Weights and Measures Discover'd: By by John Greaves (1745)
"... make 1024 Cubits in Length, e- qual to the Side of the chiliad ... of a Square chiliad in Square Cubits 1000000, the Difference is 48576, which is after ..."

3. The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology by Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Fenton John Anthony Hort, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1854)
"... wonderfully helping our historical conception: the word chiliad for 1000 years would, now that history rather tends to enlarge its temporal dimensions, ..."

4. Horæ Apocalypticæ: Or, A Commentary on the Apocalypse, Critical and by Edward Bishop Elliott (1847)
"Henceforth the chiliad, which numerically averaged about one fiftieth of a ... 3 The chiliad in this instance was not, as yet, in the highest sense of the ..."

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