MILLENNIUM


Meaning of MILLENNIUM in English

/ mɪˈleniəm; NAmE / noun ( pl. mil·len·nia / -niə; NAmE / or mil·len·niums )

1.

a period of 1 000 years, especially as calculated before or after the birth of Christ :

the second millennium AD

2.

the millennium the time when one period of 1 000 years ends and another begins :

How did you celebrate the millennium?

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WORD ORIGIN

mid 17th cent.: modern Latin , from Latin mille thousand, on the pattern of biennium .

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.