Chiliad (noun) (rare)
kil-ee-ad
A thousand things, or one thousand years.
From the Greek khilioi ‘thousand’.
Example sentences
“In school we learned to count by the chiliads.”
“He said he’d wait an entire chiliad to see it happen again.”
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