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millenary

millenary adjective: of or pertaining to a thousand, especially to a thousand years.

Adjective

millenary (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a thousand, especially to a thousand years.
  2. Of or pertaining to a millennium; millenarian.
    • Surely, this operation hath this millenary doctrine had upon the hearts of men, that, though they are thereupon apt to expect an appropinquation of their Saviour for their happy advantage, yet they resolutely put off the thought of his coming to the general judgment of the world for many...1650, Joseph Hall, The Revelation Unrevealed

Noun

millenary (plural millenaries)

  1. (archaic) A period of one thousand years; a millennium.

Forms of millenary

pluralmillenaries

Origin of millenary

From Latin mīllēnārius.

Words formed from millenary

Questions about millenary

What does millenary mean?
Millenary means of or pertaining to a thousand, especially to a thousand years.
What part of speech is millenary?
Millenary can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near millenary in the dictionary

  1. millenarians
  2. millenaries
  3. millenarism
  4. millenarist
  5. millenarists
  6. millenary
  7. Millender
  8. Millenders
  9. Millendreath
  10. millenia
  11. millenium

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