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millennium definition

mil·len·nium (mi lenē əm)

noun pl. millenniums -·ni·ums or millennia -·nia ()

  1. any period of 1,000 years 2000 through 1001 is the 2d millennium
  2. a period of 1,000 years reckoned from a certain time, esp. from the beginning of the Christian Era (1) the year A.D. 2001 marks the beginning of the third millennium
  3. a 1,000th anniversary or its commemoration
  4. any period of great happiness, peace, prosperity, etc.; imagined golden age

Etymology: ModL < L mille, thousand + annus, year (after L biennium): see annual

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millennium Idioms

the millennium

Christian Theol. the period of 1,000 years during which Christ will reign on earth: Rev. 20:1-5

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