Definition of "chiliast" [chil•i•ast]

• One who believes that Jesus will reign over Earth for a thousand years. (noun)
• A millenarian. (noun)

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• "It is worth noting that, as befits a chiliast, Ghose never denies action."
• "So with DARE’s classicist, George Goebel, the great lexicographer turned from Latin to Greek: deutero means “second” and chiliast refers to the biblical “kingdom of a thousand years.”"