millennium
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- noun
- /mɪˈlɛn.i.əm/
- 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
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Watch on YouTubeAnd that clash has been ongoing for for millennia.
- And that clash has been ongoing for for millennia.
- And psychedelics have for millennia represented hope in transition moments.
- He developed this technique in around the turn of the Millennium called inverse reinforcement learning.
- But modern life isn't like how we lived millennia ago.
- China predates the United States by millennia.
- And the things that he's saying, you know, to millennia are pretty true today.
- Hundreds of years, millennia of development, ongoing development.
Examples
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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.
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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.
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The city celebrated the arrival of the new millennium with a spectacular fireworks display.
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Historians often reflect on the changes that occurred over the last millennium in human civilization.
Synonyms
A period of one thousand years
How Long
Surface Forms
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.