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chiliad

 
Dictionary: chil·i·ad
(kĭl'ē-ăd', -əd) pronunciation
n.
  1. A group that contains 1,000 elements.
  2. One thousand years; a millennium.

[Late Latin chīlias, chīliad-, from Greek khīlias, from khīlioi, thousand.]


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1) a group of 1000
2) a period of 1000 years: millennium
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
  Synonyms: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, G, grand, thou, yard


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - tusindsårsrige, gruppe på tusind

Nederlands (Dutch)
duizendtal, duizend jaar

Français (French)
n. - mille

Deutsch (German)
n. - Tausender, Jahrtausend

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χιλιάδα, χιλιετία

Italiano (Italian)
migliaio, millennio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - milhar (m), milênio (m)

Русский (Russian)
тысяча, тысяча лет

Español (Spanish)
n. - un millar, mil años

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tusental, årtionde

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
一千年

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 一千年

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 일천, 일천 년

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 一千, 一千年, 千年

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ألف, ألف عام‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אלף, אלף שנה‬


 
 
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