millennium
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From post-classical Latin millennium, from Latin mīlle (“‘thousand’”) + -ennium (from annus (“‘year’”)).
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- IPA: /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/
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millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)
- A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
- (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to some interpretations of Revelation 20:1-5).
- 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.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 318:
- (with definite article) The year 2000.
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thousand-year period
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millennium n. (plural millennia)