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.

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)