chiliad
pronunciation
How to pronounce chiliad in British English:
UK ['kɪlɪˌæd]
How to pronounce chiliad in American English:
US ['kɪlɪˌæd]
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- Noun:
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Word Origin
- chiliad (n.)
- "group of 1,000" (of the same sort), 1590s, from Latinized form of Greek khiliados, from khilioi "a thousand; the number 1,000" (see chiliasm).
Example
- 1. Go buying breakfast , ask breakfast the shop has chiliad snow ginseng and pilose antler .
- 2. Not only the very tall gu mu that tree age amounts to several chiliad still survives today , and the lumber after cutting still also survives .
- 3. In implementation report of u.n. of respect of chiliad development target says chinese performance is superior .
- 4. Does present child also play these to circulate hundreds of years rarely the old game of very consummate chiliad ?
- 5. One becomes silent the surname of chiliad , annihilate is done not have in time endless flow .