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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
chiliasm is a noun meaning "belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations". It carries one recorded sense.
belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chiliasm come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.