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MILLENNIUM
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Irregular inflected form: millennia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A span of 1000 years
Synonyms:
millenary; millennium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("millennium" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "millennium"):
century (a period of 100 years)
Derivation:
millenary (relating to or consisting of 1000)
millennial; millennian (relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
Synonyms:
millenary; millennium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("millennium" is a kind of...):
anniversary; day of remembrance (the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it))
Derivation:
millenary (relating to or consisting of 1000)
millennial (relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(New Testament) in Revelations it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("millennium" is a kind of...):
doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)
Domain category:
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Derivation:
millenary (of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium)
Context examples:
Intense hurricanes possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history frequently pounded the region during the first millennium, from the peak of the Roman Empire to the height of the Middle Ages.
(Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming, NSF)
The archaeologists have identified a series of hitherto unrevealed funeral rituals, which were performed between the end of the second millennium BC and the beginning of the first millennium BC in the Biniadris Cave located in Menorca.
(Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, University of Granada)
