单词 | milliad |
释义 | † milliadn. Obsolete. rare. 1. A group of one thousand. With of. Cf. chiliad n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > thousand > group of a thousand chiliad1598 milliad1616 1616 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. sig. B7 Thou shalt not buy..This my dear scoffe, my nothing, for whole miliads Of any base poets long-winded Iliads. 1732 T. Stackhouse New Hist. Bible (1767) III. vi. i. 575 This miliad of wives and concubines. 2. A period of one thousand years. Cf. chiliad n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 1843 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 314 So much would, indeed, be necessary to be known..before..we fully concur with Herder, ‘that a philosophy of the history of man cannot yet be written,’ but doubt whether it will probably before ‘the end of this miliad’. 1851 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 19: Pt. i 2 Not by centuries but by milliads. 1891 L. Clark Dict. Metric Measures Milliade, a thousand years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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