billennial

English

Adjective

billennial (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an age or duration of 2,000 years.
   • 1934, Edith Abbott, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, The Social Service Review, page 383:

     But Dr. Niebuhr has gone beyond all that, and the "soaring of his soul" into millennial, billennial, and even trillennial prophecy seems to have boundless possibilities.

   • 2008, Ursula K. Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet, →ISBN:

     While the lack of privacy was precisely what made Ballard's billennial city, Harrison's New York, Hersey's New Haven, and Silverberg's urban monads so horrific, the citizens of Brin's global society rejoice in the disappearance of an informational privacy that they have come to regard as nothing more than a protection for the privileges of the affluent (e.g. Swiss bank accounts) or a cloak for unlawful maneuvers of governmental and corporate institutions.

   • 2014, Dave Van Arnam, Star Barbarian, →ISBN, page 4:

     Even now, the first tentative exploration in force of the Andromeda Galaxy are producing a ripple of expansion thence—among those political entities with the leisure for intergalactic expansion and the naïveté to believe they can hold empires together across that billennial void.

   • 2015 -, Greg Bear, Vitals, →ISBN:

     There was no motion except for the fall of bacterial snow; still and empty, lost in a billennial quiet.

See also

• bimillennial