millennial

mɪˈlɛ.nɪ.əl

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#1·8h ago

Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.

[I]t is highly likely that some preachers may have called on millennial frettings for their purposes. The theologian Abbo of Fleury recalled a premillennial sermon in his youth which did precisely this.

Origin: The is a + English -al. The English word may be analysed as or . (“of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century”) was (1947–2007) and Neil Howe (born 1951) in their book Generations (1991): see the quotations. The is derived from the adjective. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·8h ago

Occurring every thousand years.

a millennial fair

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#3·8h ago

Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium.

the millennial generation

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