Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - millennium
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Millennium
millennium
noun (plural millennia or -niums) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin mille thousand + New Latin -ennium (as in biennium) Date: circa 1638 1. a. the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 during which holiness is to prevail and Christ is to reign on earth b. a period of great happiness or human perfection 2. a. a period of 1000 years; especially one reckoned from the beginning of the Christian era at the start of the third ~ b. a 1000th anniversary or its celebration
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n. (pl. millenniums or millennia) 1 a period of 1,000 years, esp. that of Christ's prophesied reign in person on earth (Rev. 20:1-5). 2 a period of good government, great happiness, and prosperity. Derivatives millennial adj. millennialist n. & adj. Etymology: mod.L f. L mille thousand after BIENNIUM ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. тысячелетие 2. тысячелетняя годовщина 3. рел. тысячелетнее царство Христа; второе пришествие (Христа) 4. золотой век ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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(millenniums, or millennia) 1. A millennium is a period of one thousand years, especially one which begins and ends with a year ending in ‘000’, for example the period from the year 1000 to the year 2000. (FORMAL) N-COUNT 2. Many people refer to the year 2000 as the Millennium. ...the eve of the Millennium. N-SING: usu the N, N n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n plural millennia, 1 a period of 1000 years 2 the time when a new 1000-year period begins (plans for celebrating the millennium, in the year 2000) 3 the millennium the time in the future when Jesus Christ will return and rule on Earth for 1000 years - millennial adj ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1638, from L. mille "thousand" + annus "year;" first in Eng. in reference to "period of Christ's anticipated rule on Earth" (Rev. xx.1-5), hence millenarian (1631); sense of "any 1,000-year period" first recorded 1711. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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