millennial

English

Etymology

millennium +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪˈlɛniəl/, X-SAMPA: /mI"lEni@l/

Adjective

millennial (not comparable)

1. Referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening: millennial fair.
2. Occurring every thousand years
3. Occurring at the end or beginning of a millennium
   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, The Onion AV Club:

     When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.

4. (Christianity) Referring to the millennium: the millennial judgment.

Related terms

• bimillennial
• decamillennial
• millennium
• quadrimillennial
• trimillennial

Translations

referring to a 1000th anniversary

• Finnish: tuhatvuotis- (fi)

• Russian: тысячелетний (ru) (tysjačelétnij)

occurring every 1000 years

• Finnish: tuhatvuosittainen (fi)

• Russian: тысячелетний (ru) (tysjačelétnij)

referring to the millennium

• Finnish: tuhatvuotinen (fi)
• Russian: тысячелетний (ru) (tysjačelétnij)

• Volapük: milyelik (vo)

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• French: millénaire (fr)
• Italian: millenniale
• Latin: millennialis

Noun

millennial (plural millennials)

1. A person from the generation which grew up in the 90's and 2000's.