Meaning

(countable) A period of time consisting of one thousand years..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
2. (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
3. (archaic) Any long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.
4. (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
5. (archaic) A particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.

Example Sentences

But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.

How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.

The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia.

Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.

After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.

A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.

Near-synonym: utopia

expecting a millennium

Word Forms

• millennia
• millenniums
• millenium
• the millennium

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When Should You Use Millennium?

Use millennium when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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