Definition

1. Noun:
   • A group of one thousand things or people: "chiliad" refers to a set or collection consisting of exactly one thousand units.
   • A period of one thousand years: In historical or literary contexts, "chiliad" can denote a millennium, a span of a thousand years.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The ancient manuscript was divided into chiliads for easier study.
  • The prophecy spoke of events that would unfold over the next chiliad.

Advanced Usage

• "a chiliad of stars": a poetic way to describe a vast number of stars, implying a grouping of one thousand.
  • The poet gazed upon a chiliad of stars in the night sky.
• In historical chronology: Used to categorize long periods.
  • The historian organized the timeline into successive chiliads.

Variants and Related Words

• Millennium (n): A period of one thousand years. This is the more common synonym, especially for the temporal meaning.
  • The city celebrated the start of the new millennium.
• Chiliastic (adj): Relating to a thousand years or to millenarianism (the belief in a future thousand-year age of blessedness).
  • The text contained chiliastic prophecies.

Synonyms

• Thousand: The cardinal number 1,000.
• Millenary: A period of a thousand years; a millennium.
• Grand (slang): Informally meaning a thousand dollars or pounds.

Notes on Usage

• Formality and Rarity: "Chiliad" is a formal, literary, and somewhat archaic term. In modern English, "thousand" or "millennium" (for the time period) are almost always preferred.
• Primary Meaning: Its core meaning is the number one thousand itself or a group comprising that number. The temporal meaning (a thousand years) is a specific application of this numerical concept.

Noun

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