Millennium

English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin millennium, from Latin mīlle (“‘thousand’”) + -ennium (from annus (“‘year’”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

Noun

Singular Millennium

Plural millennia

Millennium (millennia)

1. A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
2. Template:Christianity The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to some interpretations of Revelation 20:1-5).
3. A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 318:

     But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that sucha state of things as we now live in is the millennium.

4. (with definite article) The year 2000.

Translations

thousand-year period

Breton: milved m., -où pl. Czech: tisíciletí cs(cs) n. Dutch: millennium nl(nl) Esperanto: jarmilo eo(eo) Finnish: vuosituhat fi(fi) French: millénaire fr(fr) m. German: Jahrtausend de(de) n., Millennium de(de) n. Hungarian: évezred hu(hu) Icelandic: árþúsund n., þúsöld f. Italian: millennio it(it) m. Japanese: 千年紀 ja(ja) (sennenki) Lithuanian: tūkstantmetis lt(lt) m. Malayalam: സഹസ്രാബ്ദം (sahasraabdam) Polish: tysiąclecie, milenium n.

Portuguese: milénio pt(pt) m. Romanian: mileniu ro(ro) n. Russian: тысячелетие ru(ru) (tysjačelétije) n. Serbian: тисућлеће n., tisućleće n. Slovak: tisícročie n., milénium m. Slovene: tisočletje sl(sl) n. Spanish: milenio es(es) m. Swahili: mwongo sw(sw) Swedish: årtusende, millennium Telugu: సహస్రాబ్ది (sahasraabdi), వెయ్యేళ్ళు (veyyaeLLu) Thai: สหัสวรรษ th(th) (sahassawad) Turkish: milenyum tr(tr), binyıl tr(tr) Vietnamese: thiên niên kỷ vi(vi)

Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ

Finnish: tuhatvuotinen valtakunta fi(fi)

period of universal happiness

Finnish: tuhatvuotinen valtakunta fi(fi)

year 2000

Finnish: millennium fi(fi)

Derived terms

• millennial
• millennium bug

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /milɛniɔm/, [miˈlεnˀiɔm]

Noun

Millennium n. (singular definite millenniet, plural indefinite millennier)

1. millennium

Inflection

    Inflection of Millennium

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	Millennium	millenniet	millennier	millennierne
genitive	Millenniums	millenniets	millenniers	millenniernes

Synonyms

• årtusinde

External links

• File:Wikipedia-logo.png Millennium on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Noun

Millennium n. (plural millennia)

1. millennium

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