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yearthousand

yearthousand noun: millennium (a thousand-year timespan).

Noun

yearthousand (plural yearthousands)

  1. (rare) millennium (a thousand-year timespan)
    • Because, according to the peculiar chronology of the oriental Jews, the sixth millenium or year-thousand after the creation expired in 1810.1859, G. SEYFFARTH, A.M., PH. D., D.D., SUMMARY OF RECENT DISCOVERIES BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY
    • It is probable that a hundred years hence the students of European literature will have much better means at command than ourselves, to take a comprehensive view of the literature of Europe during the earlier part of this “Yearthousand,"—to use a Germanism which is in many respects preferable to...1867, The English Cyclopedia

Examples of yearthousand in a sentence

  • […] “the War (of the gods and their elder brothers, the devils) lasted thirty-two yearthousands,” xii. 33. 26.1902, Journal of the American Oriental Society:
  • This has been into the genes through out yearthousands.2014, Anne Kari B. Solstad, Off darkness...: A journey out of the landscape of depression:

Forms of yearthousand

pluralyearthousands
alternative formyear-thousand
alternative formyear thousand

Origin of yearthousand

From year + thousand, a calque of either Latin millennium (from mīllennis, “thousand-year”), or, more probably, of a Germanic-language term (most likely from German); compare Dutch jaarduizend, German Jahrtausend, Norwegian årtusen, Icelandic árþúsund, and Swedish årtusende, all meaning “millennium” and being composed of the cognates (sisterwords) of English year and thousand.

Questions about yearthousand

What does yearthousand mean?
Yearthousand means millennium (a thousand-year timespan).
How do you use yearthousand in a sentence?
[…] “the War (of the gods and their elder brothers, the devils) lasted thirty-two yearthousands,” xii. 33. 26.
What part of speech is yearthousand?
Yearthousand is a noun.
What is the plural of yearthousand?
The plural of yearthousand is yearthousands.

Words near yearthousand in the dictionary

  1. yearsmen
  2. yearsworth
  3. yeartext
  4. yeartexts
  5. yearth
  6. yearthousand
  7. yearthousands
  8. yearths
  9. yeartide
  10. yeartides
  11. yeartime

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