millennial

English

Etymology

millennium +‎ -al; equivalent to milli- +‎ -ennial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈlɛni.əl/

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”, in The Onion AV Club^[1]:

     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

• Catalan: mil·lenari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一千年的

• French: millénaire (fr) m, f

• Russian: тысячеле́тний (ru) (tysjačelétnij)
• Spanish: milenario m
• Swedish: tusenårig (sv)

occurring every 1000 years

• Catalan: mil·lenari (ca) m
• French: millénaire (fr) m, f
• Russian: тысячеле́тний (ru) (tysjačelétnij)

• Spanish: milenario m
• Swedish: tusenårig (sv)

referring to the millennium

• Russian: тысячеле́тний (ru) (tysjačelétnij)

• Volapük: milyelik (vo)

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} millenniale

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} millennialis

Noun

millennial (plural millennials)

1. A demographic term for a person from the generation born from around the early 1980's to the mid 1990's or early 2000's; individuals who reached adulthood early in the 3rd millennium, AD.

See also

• Generation Y
• Nintendo generation
• MTV generation

Translations

member of the millennial generation

• Catalan: mil·lennista (ca) m, f

• Spanish: milénico m