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chiliad

chiliad

9.9
A group of one thousand things
  • noun
  • /ˈkɪliˌæd/
  • Archaic
translation icon : mil
  • Historians often refer to events that occurred over more than a chiliad.

Examples

  • A chiliad consists of one thousand units.

  • A chiliad of years is known as a millennium.

  • The sculpture consists of exactly one chiliad of tiny metallic spheres.

  • There are many ways to represent a chiliad.

  • The festival celebrated its first chiliad, marking one thousand years of tradition.

  • The ancient manuscript described the importance of a chiliad in various cultures.

  • In the mathematics class, the teacher explained that a chiliad represents one thousand units.

Synonyms

thousand
vschiliad
∞ 1.0

A group of 1,000 things

is the longer phrase or special term rather than the short single word
1000
vschiliad
∞ 1.0

A number equal to ten times one hundred

is the word form used to name the same quantity rather than digits
M
vschiliad
43 1.0

A letter used to show the number one thousand in Roman numerals

is the ordinary lexical name rather than a symbolic numeral form
one thousand
vschiliad
26 1.0

A number equal to 1,000

is the shorter single-word name rather than a spelled-out phrase

Surface Forms

chiliad singular
chiliads plural

Morphology

chiliad = thousand (opaque) = chili + ad

The Greek combining form 'chili-' (thousand) and the suffix '-ad' are not productive or recognizable to typical learners, so the meaning is not transparently derived from familiar English morphemes.

Etymology

The word chiliad comes from an old Greek word chilioi meaning 'thousand'. You can see the same root in the common prefix kilo-, as in kilogram or kilometer, so a chiliad means a set of one 'thousand' things or the number 1,000.