millennium
/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/
millennium noun: a period of time consisting of one thousand years.
Noun
millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)
- 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
- How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 25
- Synonyms:
- chiliad, kiloannum, kiloyear, kyr, yearthousand
- 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
- Synonyms:
- utopia
Proper noun (1)
the millennium
- 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
- Synonyms:
- utopia
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Millennium
the Millennium
millennium meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
millennium in Hindi
- thousand-year period
- सहस्राब्दी sahasrābdī
millennium in Tamil
- ஆயிரமாண்டுக் காலம், ஆயிராண்டு, புத்தாயிரம் ஆண்டு
millennium in Bengali
- millennium
- সহস্রাব্দ śohosrabdo
millennium in Telugu
- thousand-year period
- సహస్రాబ్ది sahasrābdi, వెయ్యేళ్ళు veyyēḷḷu
More languagesFewer languages
- millennium in Malayalam
- സഹസ്രാബ്ദം sahasrābdaṁ
- millennium in Kannada
- ಸಹಸ್ರವರ್ಷ, ಸಾವಿರವರ್ಷ, ಸಾವಿರಸೂಳು, ರಾಮರಾಜ್ಯ
- millennium in Tagalog
- libuntaon
- millennium in Arabic
- أَلْفِيَّة ʔalfiyya
- millennium in Malay
- alaf, milenium
- millennium in Indonesian
- milenium, alaf
- millennium in Thai
- สหัสวรรษ sà-hàt-sà-wát
- millennium in Vietnamese
- thiên niên kỷ
- millennium in Myanmar
- ထောင်စုနှစ် htaungcu.hnac
Examples of millennium in a sentence
- After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar...
- When rumour got afoot that in future mechanical power would be unlimited, the people expected a millennium.1930, Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC:
- For Marx, it is true, the collapse of capitalism and the communist millennium were 'necessary' in a different sense from that in which capitalism had, as he believed, evolved from feudalism.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon...
- This is the period commonly called the Millennium.1888, C. I. Scofield, “The Seven Dispensations”, in Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth (2 Tim. 2:15): Ten Outline Studies of The More...
Synonyms of millennium
Forms of millennium
| plural | millennia |
|---|---|
| plural | millenniums |
| alternative form (archaic) | millenium |
Origin of millennium
From Late Latin mīllennium, from Latin mīllennis (“1000-year”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).
Words formed from millennium
Phrases with millennium
Questions about millennium
- What does millennium mean?
- Millennium means a period of time consisting of one thousand years.
- What is millennium in Hindi?
- Millennium in Hindi is सहस्राब्दी (sahasrābdī). See Millennium meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use millennium in a sentence?
- After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.
- What part of speech is millennium?
- Millennium can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce millennium?
- Millennium is pronounced /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/.
- What is the plural of millennium?
- The plural of millennium is millennia.
Words near millennium in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: millennium (page history and authors); Millennium (page history and authors); millennium (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সহস্রাব্দ (Bengali) (page history and authors); millennium (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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