millennium
See also: Millennium
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- millenium (archaic)
Etymology edit
From Late Latin millennium, from Latin mīllennis (“1000-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)
- A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
- Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, centennium, quincentennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium
- 2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
- The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia.
- 2013 March 24, Dan Pearson, The Guardian:
- Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.
- (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
- 1888, C. I. Scofield, “The Seven Dispensations”, in Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth (2 Tim. 2:15): Ten Outline Studies of The More Important Divisions of Scripture[2], Second edition (Religion), Philadelphia, Penn.: Philadelphia School of the Bible, published 1923, →OCLC, page 25:
- After the purifying judgments which attended the personal return of Christ to the Earth, He will reign over restored Israel and over the earth for one thousand years. This is the period commonly called the Millennium. The seat of His power will be Jerusalem, and the saints, including the saved of the Dispensation of Grace, viz., the Church, will be associated with Him in His glory.
- 1911, Saki, “Tobermory”, in The Chronicles of Clovis:
- An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium, and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 137:
- the end of the world would be heralded by a series of spectacular and symbolic events […]. According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 117:
- Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium, when the end of the world was forecast.
- A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 318:
- But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium.
- (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.
Synonyms edit
- yearthousand, kiloyear (kyr), kiloannum (ka)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
thousand-year period
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Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ
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period of universal happiness
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year when a period of 1000 years ends and another begins
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Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
millennium n (singular definite millenniet, plural indefinite millennier)
Inflection edit
Declension of millennium
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | millennium | millenniet | millennier | millennierne |
genitive | millenniums | millenniets | millenniers | millenniernes |
Synonyms edit
Further reading edit
- millennium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin mīllennium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
millennium n (plural millennia, diminutive milleniumtje n)
- millennium
- Synonym: jaarduizend
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /miːlˈlen.ni.um/, [miːlˈlʲɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /milˈlen.ni.um/, [milˈlɛnːium]
Noun edit
mīllennium n (genitive mīllenniī or mīllennī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | mīllennium | mīllennia |
Genitive | mīllenniī mīllennī1 |
mīllenniōrum |
Dative | mīllenniō | mīllenniīs |
Accusative | mīllennium | mīllennia |
Ablative | mīllenniō | mīllenniīs |
Vocative | mīllennium | mīllennia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
millennium n (definite singular millenniet, indefinite plural millennier, definite plural millennia or millenniene)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
millennium n (definite singular millenniet, indefinite plural millennium, definite plural millennia)
Swedish edit
Noun edit
millennium n
- a millennium, a period of one thousand years
Declension edit
Declension of millennium | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | millennium | millenniet | millennier | millennierna |
Genitive | millenniums | millenniets | millenniers | millenniernas |