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millennium
  1. A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
  2. (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
  3. A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
  4. (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Tabo is covered in white plaster and had been in continuous operation for almost exactly a millennium.”
      “As far as this particular millennium can go temporally, these books are a kind of natural expression of that.”
      “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.”
millenarianism
  1. A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity. [from 19th c.]
  2. Examples:
    1. “Their commitment to improving the human lot through a fuller knowledge of nature was closely connected with their millenarianism.”
      “Thompson expertly unravels a tangled tale suffused with Victorian mores, millenarianism and frontier idealism.”
      “Because of its concern with imminent change, millenarianism appealed to radical reformers and could be secularized into utopianism.”
millennial
  1. A demographic term for a person from the generation born from around the early 1980's to the mid 1990's or early 2000's; individuals who reached adulthood early in the 3rd millennium, AD.
  2. Synonyms:
millenarian
millennialist
  1. A believer in millennialism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It was consolidated in the fourth century in its conflict with the North African millennialist Donatist sect.”
      “The degree to which nonsupernaturalists and Neopagans may also legitimately be considered millennialist is less clear.”
      “Unlike Freuder, Goldman, and Cohn, Steiner did not espouse a millennialist theology.”
millenarianist
  1. A believer in millenarianism.
millennist
  1. (obsolete) One who believes in the millennium.
millenarism
millenniarism
millennialism
  1. millenarianism
  2. Examples:
    1. “It should be clear that this is a very different kind of millennialism than the dispensationalist one.”
      “Living in societies where the clergy were crucial shapers of public opinion, American nationalists adopted the language of millennialism.”
      “Mr. Larsen makes the mistake of equating millennialism with dispensationalism, when the latter is actually a particular type of the former.”
millenarianisms
  1. plural of millenarianism
millenarianists
  1. plural of millenarianist
millennialisms
  1. plural of millennialism
millennialists
  1. plural of millennialist
millenarians
millennia
  1. plural of millennium
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They invoked the elements and the ancient Welsh gods who their family had worshipped for millennia.”
      “By contrast, casting or drawing lots to assure fairness in allocating duties or rewards has been acceptable for millennia.”
      “Whereas scientific research on agroforestry dates back at most two generations, this indigenous system is centuries, if not millennia, old.”
millennials
  1. plural of millennial
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Well, there are a lot of struggles on the part of managers and millennials in the workplace.”
      “Even by the low standards of his party, he has underperformed at reaching millennials in the thriving culture where they live.”
      “I think the parents of baby boomers were much more patient than baby boomers and I think the millennials have no patience.”
millennists
  1. plural of millennist
millenniums
  1. plural of millennium
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The clues we gather on Mars's geology might allow us to determine the chain of events that occur on Earth across the millenniums.”
      “For centuries, even millenniums, man has known and used the healing virtues of the products of the honey bee hive.”
      “Left alone, Ms. Alvin's rock piles could remain standing for millenniums, she said.”
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