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- Dictionarymil·len·ni·um/məˈlenēəm/
noun
- 1. a period of a thousand years, especially when calculated from the traditional date of the birth of Christ: "silver first came into use on a substantial scale during the 3rd millennium"
- 2. an anniversary of a thousand years: "the millennium of the Russian Orthodox Church"
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1. a. : the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation sense 3) 20 during which holiness is to prevail and Christ is to reign on earth. b. : a period of great happiness or human perfection. 2. a. : a period of 1000 years. especially : one reckoned from the beginning of the Christian era. at the start of the third millennium. b.
a period of 1,000 years, or the time when a period of 1,000 years ends: The corpse had lain preserved in the soil for almost two millennia. Compare. century. the millennium. the beginning of a new millennium in the year 2000: How did you celebrate the millennium? Fewer examples. The book is a history of the last two millennia.
Millennium definition: a period of 1,000 years. See examples of MILLENNIUM used in a sentence.
/məˈlɛniəm/ /mɪˈlɛniəm/ IPA guide. Other forms: millenniums; millennia. A decade means ten years, a century means a hundred, and millennium means a thousand. Think: a decade of marriage, the new millennium. In Latin, in the Romance languages, and in the metric system, mille refers to a thousand.
A millennium is a period of one thousand years, especially one which begins and ends with a year ending in '000', for example the period from the year 1000 to the year 2000. [formal] 2. singular noun. Many people refer to the year 2000 as the Millennium. ...the eve of the Millennium.
MILLENNIUM meaning: 1. a period of 1,000 years, or the time when a period of 1,000 years ends: 2. the beginning of a…. Learn more.
MILLENNIUM meaning: 1 : a period of 1,000 years; 2 : a period of a thousand years counted from the beginning of the Christian era.
millennium meaning, definition, what is millennium: a period of 1,000 years: Learn more.
MILLENNIUM definition: 1. a period of 1000 years, often calculated from the date when Christ is thought to have been born…. Learn more.
A thousand-year period of holiness mentioned in the book of Revelation, during which Jesus and his faithful followers are to rule on earth. A period of 1,000 years reckoned from a certain time, esp. from the beginning of the Christian Era (a.d. 1) The year a.d. 2001 marks the beginning of the third millennium.
