EGAVE

millennial

About 0.59 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Thousand-year-old; also thousands of years old.
  2. adjective Occurring every thousand years.
  3. adjective Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium.
  4. adjective Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening.
    a millennial fair
  5. adjective Often capitalized: of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s (with 1996 births cited as the last Millennial year), and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E.
    the millennial generation
  6. adjective Synonym of millenarian (“pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth”).
    the millennial judgment
  7. noun Often capitalized: a person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century, from around the early 1980s to the mid-1990s and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E., characterized by their familiarity with computer technology and poorer financial prospects than their parents.
  8. noun A thousandth anniversary; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.

Similar words

millennian millennium millenium ancient age-old millennia trillennial centenary centennial bimillenary

Often followed by

kingdom reign star harbinger age generation movements expectations dreams period

Word family

millennials

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