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chiliarchs

chiliarchs is the plural of chiliarch.

Meaning of chiliarch

Noun

chiliarch (plural chiliarchs)

  1. (historical) A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece.
    • And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck,
      Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound.1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, The Persians, page 220, lines 306–307

Questions about chiliarchs

What is chiliarchs the plural of?
Chiliarchs is the plural of chiliarch.

Words near chiliarchs in the dictionary

  1. chiliahedrons
  2. chilian
  3. chilians
  4. chiliarch
  5. chiliarchies
  6. chiliarchs
  7. chiliarchy
  8. chilias
  9. chiliasm
  10. chiliasms
  11. chiliast

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