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   millennium

   /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

   noun

   • 1. a period of a thousand years, especially when calculated from the traditional date of the birth of Christ: "silver first came into use on a substantial scale during the 3rd millennium"
   • ▪ the prophesied thousand-year reign of Christ at the end of the age (Rev. 20:1–5): "Archer's treatise predicted that the millennium was close at hand"
   • ▪ a utopian period of justice, peace, and prosperity: "the people must seize power—the millennium cannot be imposed on them from above"
   • 2. an anniversary of a thousand years: "the millennium of the Russian Orthodox Church"
   • ▪ the point at which one period of a thousand years ends and another begins: "as we approach the millennium the only certainty is change"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: modern Latin, from Latin mille ‘thousand’, on the pattern of biennium.

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