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millennia

millennia is the plural of millennium.

Meaning of millennium

Noun

millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)

  1. (countable) 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.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 23
  2. (with-definite-article) 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.
  3. (archaic) Any long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.
    • Near-synonym: utopia
    Synonyms:
    utopia

See all 7 meanings of millennium

Noun

millennia (plural millennia or millennias)

  1. (nonstandard) a single period of 1000 years, a millennium
    • Could its existence mean the ancient Greeks knew the Earth moved round the Sun more than a millennia before Copernicus brought it to the world in the sixteenth century?2006, “Unearthing Mysteries”, in Radio 4, retrieved 15 Aug 2024
    • In ancient Egypt, at the turn of the first millennia, animal mummies were produced in vast numbers as offerings to the pantheon of gods.2015 September 30, Lidija McKnight, “The crocodile with eight heads”, in The Guardian, retrieved 15 Aug 2024

Forms of millennia

pluralmillennia
pluralmillennias

Questions about millennia

What does millennia mean?
Millennia means a single period of 1000 years, a millennium.
What is millennia the plural of?
Millennia is the plural of millennium.
What part of speech is millennia?
Millennia is a noun.
What is the plural of millennia?
The plural of millennia is millennia.

Words near millennia in the dictionary

  1. Millendreath
  2. millenia
  3. millenium
  4. milleniums
  5. millennarian
  6. millennia
  7. millennial
  8. millennial cringe
  9. Millennial Dawnist
  10. Millennial Dawnists
  11. millennial gray

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