26984 words

millennium

3 definitions • 3 examples
1
a period of 1,000 years, or the time when a period of 1,000 years ends:

Examples:

The corpse had lain preserved in the soil for almost two millennia.
2
the beginning of a new millennium in the year 2000:

Examples:

How did you celebrate the millennium?
3
a period of 1000 years:

Examples:

The area has experienced the worst drought in half a millennium.

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