chiliad

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chiliad - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Chiliad \Chil"i*ad\, 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.                             --Sir. T.
                                                    More.
     [1913 Webster]

chiliad - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  chiliad
      n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn:
           thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad,
           G, grand, thou, yard]