millennium

English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin millennium, from Latin mīlle (“thousand”) + -ennium (from annus (“year”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

Noun

millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)

1. A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
2. (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to some interpretations of Revelation 20:1-5).
   • 1911, Saki, ‘Tobermory’, The Chronicles of Clovis:

     An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium, and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.

3. A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 318:

     But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that sucha state of things as we now live in is the millennium.

4. (with definite article) The year 2000.

Translations

thousand-year period

Armenian: հազարամյակ (hy) (hazaramyak) Breton: milved (br) m. Catalan: mil·lenni (ca) m. Chinese: 千年 Czech: tisíciletí (cs) n. Dutch: millennium (nl) Esperanto: jarmilo (eo) Finnish: vuosituhat (fi) French: millénaire (fr) m. German: Jahrtausend (de) n., Millennium (de) n. Hungarian: évezred (hu) Icelandic: árþúsund (is) n., þúsöld (is) f. Italian: millennio (it) m. Japanese: 千年間 (ja) (sennenkan), 千年期 (ja) (sennenki), 千年紀 (ja) (sennenki) Lithuanian: tūkstantmetis (lt) m. Luxembourgish: Joerdausend (lb) n. Malay: alaf (ms) Malayalam: സഹസ്രാബ്ദം (sahasraabdam)

Norwegian: årtusen (no), millennium (no) Polish: tysiąclecie, milenium n. Portuguese: milénio (pt) m. Romanian: mileniu (ro) n. Russian: тысячелетие (ru) (tysjačelétije) n. Serbian: тисућлеће n., tisućleće n. Slovak: tisícročie n., milénium m. Slovene: tisočletje (sl) n. Spanish: milenio (es) m. Swahili: mwongo (sw) Swedish: årtusende (sv), millennium (sv) Telugu: సహస్రాబ్ది (sahasraabdi), వెయ్యేళ్ళు (veyyaeLLu) Thai: สหัสวรรษ (th) (sahassawad) Turkish: milenyum (tr), binyıl (tr) Ukrainian: тисячеліття (uk) n. Vietnamese: thiên niên kỷ (vi) Volapük: milyel (vo)

Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ

Finnish: tuhatvuotinen valtakunta (fi)

Norwegian: millennium (no)

period of universal happiness

Finnish: tuhatvuotinen valtakunta (fi)

Japanese: 至福千年, 千年王国

year 2000

Czech: milénium (cs) n.

Finnish: millennium (fi)

Derived terms

• millennial
• millennium bug

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /milɛniɔm/, [miˈlɛnˀiɔm]

Noun

millennium n. (singular definite millenniet, plural indefinite millennier)

1. millennium

Inflection

    Inflection of millennium

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	millennium	millenniet	millennier	millennierne
genitive	millenniums	millenniets	millenniers	millenniernes

Synonyms

• årtusinde

External links

• Millennium on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Noun

millennium n. (plural millennia, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. millennium

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Swedish

Noun

millennium n.

1. a millennium, a period of one thousand years

Declension

Declension of millennium

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	millennium	millenniet	millennier	millennierna
genitive	millenniums	millenniets	millenniers	millenniernas

Synonyms

• årtusende

See also

• år
• århundrade
• årtionde
• decennium
• sekel