millenary

/mi'lenəri/

Thân thiện

A millenary celebration marks the thousandth anniversary of the city's founding.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Relating to or consisting of 1000: Pertaining to a quantity or period of one thousand units, especially years.
   • Of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium: Connected to the belief in a future thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, often based on religious prophecy.

2. Noun:

   • A sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years): A group or total amounting to one thousand, most commonly used in the context of years.
   • A span of 1000 years: A period of one thousand years; a millennium.
   • The 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it): The commemoration of an event that occurred one thousand years earlier.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • The millenary celebration of the city's founding attracted visitors from around the world.
  • Scholars studied the millenary prophecies found in ancient texts.

• Noun:

  • The artifact dates from the first millenary of the Common Era.
  • The cathedral is preparing for its millenary next year.
  • A millenary had passed since the great empire fell.

Advanced Usage

• Millenary expectations: Beliefs or hopes associated with a thousand-year period.

  • The movement was fueled by millenary expectations of a new age.

• Of millenary significance: Having importance spanning or relating to a thousand years.

  • The archaeological discovery was of millenary significance, linking two distant epochs.

Variants and Related Words

• Millennium (n): A period of one thousand years. (This is the more common term for a thousand-year period).

  • We are living in the third millennium of the Common Era.

• Millenarian (adj/n): (Adjective) Relating to a millennium or millenarianism. (Noun) A person who believes in the coming of a millennium, especially of a golden age.

  • The group held millenarian beliefs about the future.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Chiliastic (specifically relating to the millennium), thousandfold.
• Noun: Millennium, chiliad, thousand-year period.

Related Phrases

• Millenary anniversary: A thousandth anniversary.

  • The nation marked its millenary anniversary with a year-long festival.

• Millenary calculations: Computations or considerations involving a thousand-year timescale.

  • The theory involved complex millenary calculations about planetary orbits.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. relating to or consisting of 1000
2. of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium

Noun

1. a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years)
2. a span of 1000 years
3. the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

Từ đồng nghĩa

• millennium