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CHILIAST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chiliast mean?
• CHILIAST (noun)
The noun CHILIAST has 1 sense:
1. a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity)
Familiarity information: CHILIAST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
chiliast; millenarian; millenarist
Hypernyms ("chiliast" is a kind of...):
optimist (a person disposed to take a favorable view of things)
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