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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Iliad \Il"i*ad\, noun [L. Ilias, -adis, Gr. ?, ? (sc. ?), fr. ?, ?, Ilium, the city of Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium, which is a poetical name of Troy.] A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Iliad
noun: a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
ILIAD A {real-time} language. ["On the Design of a Language for Programming Real-Time Concurrent Processes", H.A. Schutz, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-5(3):248-255, May 1979]. (2000-09-03)
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