millennium

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

Noun [edit]

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 Millenarianist interpretations).
    • 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.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 117:
      Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium, when the end of the world was forecast.
  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 [edit]

thousand-year period
Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ
period of universal happiness
year 2000

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Danish [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /milɛniɔm/, [miˈlɛnˀiɔm]

Noun [edit]

millennium n (singular definite millenniet, plural indefinite millennier)

  1. millennium

Inflection [edit]

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

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Dutch [edit]

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia nl

Noun [edit]

millennium n (plural millennia, diminutive milleniumtje)

  1. millennium

Latin [edit]

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia la

Noun [edit]

millennium (genitive millenniī); n, second declension

  1. millennium

Inflection [edit]

Number Singular Plural
nominative millennium millennia
genitive millenniī millenniōrum
dative millenniō millenniīs
accusative millennium millennia
ablative millenniō millenniīs
vocative millennium millennia

Swedish [edit]

Noun [edit]

millennium n

  1. a millennium, a period of one thousand years

Declension [edit]

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

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