millennial

English

Etymology

millennium +‎ -al; surface analysis 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. 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?

5. (Christianity) Referring to the millennium, the period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth.

   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 or f

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

occurring every 1000 years

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

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

referring to the millennium

• Indonesian: milenial
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can

• Russian: тысячеле́тний (ru) (tysjačelétnij)
• Volapük: milyelik (vo)

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Translations to be checked

• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} ezeréves
• 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 1980s to the mid 1990s or early 2000s; individuals who reached adulthood early in the 3rd millennium, AD.

   Coordinate term: xennial

Translations

member of the millennial generation

• Catalan: mil·lennista (ca) m or f
• Dutch: millennial (nl)
• French: millennial (fr) m

• Indonesian: milenial
• Italian: millennial (it)
• Spanish: milénico m, millennial m or f

See also

• Generation Y
• MTV generation

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Spanish

Noun

millennial m or f (plural millennials)

1. millennial