millennium

/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

name 4noun 3

Collocations

ADJ.

half, last, many, new, old, prepared

We weren't prepared for all the changes that came with the new millennium.

VERB + MILLENNIUM

achieved, eat, make, makes, set

The company set a millennium goal to reduce carbon emissions by half.

MILLENNIUM + NOUN

bug, centuries, development, egg, goal, goals, others, period

The millennium bug caused widespread concern among computer experts in the late 1990s.

PREP.

in, in, than, up, up, with

We've seen more technological change in the past decade than in the entire previous millennium.

Definitions

noun

A period of time consisting of one thousand years.

But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.

How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.

The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.

Any long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.

Near-synonym: utopia

expecting a millennium

name

The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).

usher in the millennium

The Nazis' concept for the so-called Thousand-Year Reich of their infallible Leader has been described as but a pale pseudoreligious false-prophet imitation of the Christian concept of the millennium of Christ regnant.

A particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.

Near-synonym: utopia

usher in the millennium

name

The Kingdom of Christ on Earth, predicted by Christians to come about someday.

A particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.

Near-synonym: utopia

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a span of 1000 years

millenary

noun — the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

millenary

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.

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The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia.

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usher in the millennium

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The Nazis' concept for the so-called Thousand-Year Reich of their infallible Leader has been described as but a pale pseudoreligious false-prophet imitation of the Christian concept of the millennium

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After the purifying judgments which attended the personal return of Christ to the Earth, He will reign over restored Israel and over the earth for one thousand years. This is the period commonly calle

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Usage Notes

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