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- Ancient Greek · derived fromχιλιασμός
- English todaychiliasm
From Ancient Greek χιλιασμός (khiliasmós), from χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, sometimes equated with the return of Jesus for that period. Full definition →
From Ancient Greek χιλιασμός (khiliasmós), from χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.