millennium
See also: Millennium
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)
- A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
- 2013 March 24, Dan Pearson, The Guardian:
- Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.
- (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
- 1911, Saki, “Tobermory”, in 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.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 137:
- the end of the world would be heralded by a series of spectacular and symbolic events […]. According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 117:
- Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium, when the end of the world was forecast.
- A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 318:
- But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium.
- (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
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Derived terms
Translations
thousand-year period
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Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ
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period of universal happiness
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year when a period of 1000 years ends and another begins
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Danish
Pronunciation
Noun
millennium n (singular definite millenniet, plural indefinite millennier)
Inflection
Declension of millennium
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | millennium | millenniet | millennier | millennierne |
genitive | millenniums | millenniets | millenniers | millenniernes |
Synonyms
Further reading
millennium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
millennium n (plural millennia, diminutive milleniumtje n)
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /miːlˈlen.ni.um/, [miːlˈlʲɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /milˈlen.ni.um/, [milˈlɛnːium]
Noun
mīllennium n (genitive mīllenniī or mīllennī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | mīllennium | mīllennia |
Genitive | mīllenniī mīllennī1 |
mīllenniōrum |
Dative | mīllenniō | mīllenniīs |
Accusative | mīllennium | mīllennia |
Ablative | mīllenniō | mīllenniīs |
Vocative | mīllennium | mīllennia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Swedish
Noun
millennium n
- a millennium, a period of one thousand years
Declension
Declension of millennium | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | millennium | millenniet | millennier | millennierna |
Genitive | millenniums | millenniets | millenniers | millenniernas |
Synonyms
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