This week’s theme
Words related to time

This week’s words
anachronistic
kairos
chiliad
epoch
isochronal

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(KIL-ee-ad)

MEANING:

noun:
1. A period of a thousand years.
2. A group of 1000.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin chilias, from Greek chilioi (thousand). Earliest documented use: 1598.

USAGE:

“As Jan 1, 1990, hits the ground running, so do I, toward the biggest marketing opportunity in chiliads.”
Patricia Cadigan Tucker; Beginning of the End? No, It’s Fin-De-Siecle; St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri); Jan 1, 1990.

See more usage examples of chiliad in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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