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millennium

millennium

23 4.5
A celebration for the one thousandth anniversary of an important event
  • noun
  • /mɪˈlɛniəm/
translation icon : milenio
  • However, like George Orwell's 1984, the new millennium slipped by, yet the yearly clock kept, and keeps on, ticking away.
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • millennium celebration
  • new millennium

Examples

  • Three weeks after I bought the place, they started building the Millennium Dome next door.

    The Riddle (2007)

  • Economics 233-- marketing in the new millennium.

    Bookies (2003)

  • It's time for the new millennium.

    Child of Satan (2018)

  • Yeah, a real American family for the new millennium.

    Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2001)

  • - Welcome to the new millennium.

    Devil Girl (2007)

  • Lucy was getting married next spring and wanted it to be the wedding of the millennium.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • A new agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, was created to administer the program.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Well, one shining star in this pretty big bleak picture overall is a project coordinated by the United Nations called the Millennium Development Project.

  • And they vowed to vanquish poverty by "mobilizing all resources for development," particularly through the Millennium Development Goals.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The city organized a grand parade to celebrate the millennium in 2000.

Synonyms

millenary
vsmillennium
9.9

The one thousandth anniversary of an event

is the same meaning but is the more common modern form

Surface Forms

millennium singular
millennia plural

Etymology

Millennium comes from the Latin words mille 'a thousand' and annus 'year'. A millennium celebration is the 'thousandth year' anniversary of something, so people use the word for the big, 1,000-year birthday of a city, school, or event.