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millennium

millennium

124 5.3
A period of one thousand years counted from a specific date
  • noun
  • /mɪˈlɛn.i.əm/
translation icon : milenio
  • As the end of the millennium approached, many people began to speculate about the future.
  • the new millennium
  • the next millennium
  • turn of the millennium

And that clash has been ongoing for for millennia.

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Examples

  • By the turn of the millennium, videoconferencing further buttressed collaboration at a distance.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Each of these has areas that are now called Millennium Development Goals.

  • It's coming before the end of this millennium, within the next five years.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • As we wind up our century and our millennium, this is yours.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • By the middle of the third millennium B.C., however, it was no longer in use.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Finally, as we approach the new millennium, we face daunting old and new challenges to our health.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals place health at the center of efforts to alleviate poverty.

    Academic text (2013)
  • At the turn of the millennium, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act was introduced, requiring any activities harming protected species, like the culling of great whites, to seek approval.

  • The city celebrated the arrival of the new millennium with a spectacular fireworks display.

  • Historians often reflect on the changes that occurred over the last millennium in human civilization.

Synonyms

millenary
vsmillennium
9.9

A period of one thousand years

is the alternate written form of the same time period

How Long

geological time
  • Specialized
2 7.2
era
775 2.5
age
674 5.5
millennium
124 5.3
century
1.0
year
1.0
moment
1.0

Surface Forms

millennium singular
millennia plural

Etymology

Millennium comes from the Latin words mille 'a thousand' and annus 'year'. So a millennium simply means 'a thousand years', which is why we use it for a period of one thousand years.