chiliads

chiliads
n. group of 1000; millennium, time period of 1000 years; positive whole number which is the product of 10 and 100

English contemporary dictionary. 2014.

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  • chil|i|ad — «KIHL ee ad», noun. 1. a group of 1,000 (things); a thousand. 2. a period of 1,000 years: »The scars and dints of centuries, of chiliads of stubborn resistance (George Macdonald). ╂[< Greek chīliás, ádos < ch a thousand] …   Useful english dictionary

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