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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
millennium + -al; surface analysis milli- + -ennial.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
millennial (not comparable)
- Referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening.
- millennial fair
- Occurring every thousand years.
- 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.
- Of or relating to people born in the last two decades of the 20th century.
- the millennial generation
- He was suffering from a typical millennial problem: Which is the correct emoji to use?
- (Christianity) Referring to the millennium, the period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth.
- the millennial judgment
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
referring to a 1000th anniversary
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occurring every 1000 years
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referring to the millennium
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Noun[edit]
millennial (plural millennials)
- 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.
Translations[edit]
member of the millennial generation
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Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
millennial m, f (plural millennials)
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