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单词 millennium
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millenniumn.

Brit. /mᵻˈlɛnɪəm/, U.S. /məˈlɛniəm/
Inflections: Plural millennia, millenniums.
Forms: 1600s– millenium (now nonstandard), 1600s– millennium, 1700s– milennium (now nonstandard). Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin millennium.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin millennium period of a thousand years (a1210 in a British source) < classical Latin mīlle thousand (see milli- comb. form) + -ennium (in biennium period of two years, triennium triennium n., etc.). Compare French millénium (1765). Compare earlier millenary n. and adj., millenize v.The spelling with -nn- reflects the derivation < classical Latin annus , and that with -n- , shown by millenarian adj. and n. and related words, reflects their derivation from post-classical Latin millenarius; however, the spellings of the two groups of words have frequently been confused. Compare also the spelling of millénium and related words in French.
1.
a. Christian Church. The period of one thousand years during which (according to one interpretation of Revelation 20:1–5) Christ will reign in person on earth.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse > millennium
millenniuma1638
chiliad1702
millenniary1865
a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) v. 892 The Millennium of the Reign of Christ is that which the Scriptures call The Day of Judgment.
1694 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 178 Our Lord Christ..would..gather all the Saints..& leade them to Jerusalem, & begin the Millenium.
1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 417 Arguments [are] advanced..against the literal interpretation of the millenium.
1830 S. T. Coleridge Lect. Shakespeare II. 341 The date apocalyptically deduced..for the commencement of the Millennium.
1890 R. Buchanan Coming Terror (1891) 62 Possibly, until the Millennium, there will always be drones.
1945 D. H. Kromminga (title) The millennium in the Church: studies in the history of Christian chiliasm.
1986 Evangelical Q. Jan. 59 The Independent churches..were the high-water mark in this recovery of New Testament polity, and their rise accordingly marked the nearness of the millenium.
b. A period of peace, happiness, prosperity, and ideal government, esp. a future utopia, typically ushered in by violent events accompanying the end of the existing world order.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > time of prosperity
highOE
golden age1561
halcyon days1570
gilded age1655
heyday1751
high point1787
millennium1821
palmy days1837
up1843
clover summer1866
flower-time1873
belle époque1910
glory-days1956
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [noun] > period of happiness and benign government
millennium1821
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. ii. 119 But this day, black within the calendar, Shall be succeeded by a bright millenium.
1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 421 The millennium will indeed have come for professional vagrants.
1899 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 187 A millennium, which lasted a fortnight, succeeded his [sc. George IV's] visit.
1938 R. Crossman in New Statesman 7 May 780/2 Unlike the Stalinites, he has learnt nothing from the experience of Fascism, and so can greet it as a positive advance towards the millennium.
1964 Amer. Scholar 33 Autumn 630/1 The millenium is here, the era of ‘fewer and better’ motion pictures—and what have we?
1986 Marxism Today Sept. 43/1 Who..will draft this constitution? And with what in mind? To usher in a socialist millennium?
1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Apr. 28/1 Although Protestantism never gained many converts in Japan, a similar spirit animates Japanese yearnings for a glorious millenium.
2.
a. gen. A period of one thousand years; each of the thousand-year periods reckoned successively from a conventional starting point, esp. from the assumed date of the birth of Christ; the beginning or end of such a period (often regarded or forecast as a turning point in history); (hyperbolically) a very long time. Also: a thousandth anniversary.
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the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > specific anniversaries
jubileec1386
quinquagenary1588
centenary1661
millennium1664
secular1706
coming of age1788
centennial1791
tricentenary1846
tercentenary1855
quinquennial1857
ter-millenary1864
sexcentenary1865
semi-centenary1870
bicentenary1872
septcentenary1873
quincentenary1877
sesquicentennial1880
quadricentennial1882
bicentennial1883
quatercentenary1883
tricentennial1883
tercentennial1884
quincentennial1885
octocentenary1888
quadrennial1890
quingentenary1892
octingentenary1893
ruby anniversary1893
semi-jubilee1893
septingentenary1893
millennial1896
millenary1897
quadringenary1905
quingenary1911
bimillenary1961
sesquicentenary1961
quasquicentennial1962
nongenary1966
octocentennial1994
the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years
hendecadOE
a week of yearsa1382
weekc1384
Olympiada1387
lustre1387
yearc1425
millenary1551
prenticeship1553
septenary1576
lustrum1590
quinquennal1590
seventy1590
septimane1603
quinquennie1606
threescore (years) and tena1616
duodecad1621
quinquennium1621
jubilee1643
quadrenniala1646
chiliad1653
septennary1659
septennium1660
triennial1661
millennium1664
tetraëterid1678
octennial1679
duodenary1681
quadrennium1779
septenniad1836
quinquenniad1842
milliad1843
tricentenary1846
triennium1847
vicennium1847
bimillenary1850
lustration1853
sexennium1858
septennate1874
quinquennial1877
pentad1880
sexennate1898
aeon1960
1664 J. Worthington in J. Mede Wks. (ed. 2) p. xvii He tried..to place the Millennium elsewhere, and..to begin the 1000 years at the reign of Constantine.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 54 in Wks. (1721) II. They on one Theme Milleniums spend.
1773 J. Macpherson Diss. in Poems of Ossian (new ed.) II. 260 It is..needless to fix its origin [sc. that of the kingdom of the Scots] a fictitious millennium before.
1840 T. De Quincey Mod. Superstition in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 574/1 We may pass, by a vast transition of two and a half millennia.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 122 Let Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge.
1899 E. Markham Man with Hoe 33 The wise King out of the nearing heaven comes To break the spell of long milleniums.
1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods xiii. 289 The decline of the Archaic Culture and the invasions of the warrior peoples at the beginning of the second millennium.
a1955 A. R. Ammons Coll. Poems (1972) 35 Millenniums later waking in a lightened air I shivered.
1978 Church Times 17 Mar. 7/3 Observance of the millenium of St. Edward, King and Martyr, opens at Corfe Castle tomorrow.
1996 Observer 24 Mar. 21/1 The first leadership election held under universal suffrage in five millenniums of Chinese history.
2011 J. Cartwright Other People's Money (2012) viii. 87 She was embalmed by Harry, and the unguent was money. In the old days—she's a bit vague about millennia—the Egyptians used spices.
b. spec. Usually as the Millennium. The year 2000, as marking the beginning of the third millennium a.d., or the end of the second; this year viewed as an occasion for celebration or commemoration. Also: New Year's Eve 1999 and the New Year holiday of January 2000. Cf. Compounds 1.According to traditional Christian chronology, the first day of the third millennium and of the 21st cent. was 1 January 2001.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > of specific calendar > particular year in specific calendar
the year of Christc1392
yeara1500
year of (man's) salvation1560
working year1722
the Millennium1991
1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus Prologue 16 A final thought on Franciscans and Galileans in the light of our environmental concerns as a tattered planet approaches the millennium.
1994 Observer 16 Oct. 5/2 There are five distributory bodies covering the arts, sports, heritage, charities and the millennium.
1998 What Cellphone Aug. 12/3 Professionals and members of the public are being asked to submit ideas for a structure that will serve as a landmark for the Millennium as well as a mobile telecoms mast.
1999 Ann. Rep. J. Sainsbury plc 20/3 The Board has agreed trading hours over the millennium.
2000 Holiday & Leisure Spring 24/3 Manchester will be the north's main focal point for a year-long celebration of the Millennium, with the focal point being a showcase of the canals and rivers which made it such an engine house for the Industrial Revolution.

Compounds

C1. attributive (in sense 2b). Established, designed, held, etc., to commemorate the start of the 21st cent.; of or taking place at this time.
ΚΠ
1992 Independent 18 Dec. 1/5 People are to be asked to propose ideas to a new Millennium Commission of the great and the good for projects for 2000.
1994 Leisure Manager Aug. 7/3 The Albertopolis consortium of South Kensington institutions which has commissioned an architectural millennium scheme from Sir Norman Foster.
1996 Independent on Sunday 19 Jan. (Real Lives section) 3/3 A tidy sum for a spot of bubbly, but then this millennium champagne does come in Methuselahs.
1999 Daily Star 23 Apr. 39/5 Hardest of all is trying to explain how anybody other than Australia has a snowball in hell's chance of lifting the Millennium World Cup.
2000 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 1 Jan. 4/3 Awards For All..are celebrating the Scottish Millennium Festival by giving funds to Argyll and Bute's Millennium commemorations.
C2.
millennium baby n. (a) a child reaching adolescence at the start of the 21st cent. (rare); (b) a child born at the start of the 21st cent., esp. on 1 January, 2000.
ΚΠ
1995 Scotsman 22 June 18/2 (headline) The millennium babies cope with growing pains. Citizens of 2000 find adolescence blooming as the teen years beckon.
1997 Mirror (Nexis) 14 Apr. 10 The race will be on for the first Millennium baby.
2000 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Electronic ed.) 3 Jan. At least two southern newborns arrived in time to earn the millennium baby title.
millennium bomb n. = millennium bug n.
ΚΠ
1996 Computer Weekly 21 Mar. 2/3 A large panel of suppliers, consultancies and lawyers tried to persuade users that they will need a lot of professional help to cope with what is being called the millennium bomb.
1998 Meat Trades Jrnl. 17/1 Many small businesses are going to be hit hard by the Millennium bomb.
millennium bug n. Computing a programming bug or ‘error’ affecting some computers, arising from the inability of computer software and firmware to process correctly the dates of 1 January 2000 or later owing to the numerical representation of calendar years by the last two digits only (predicted at the time to cause widespread disruption to computer systems: see quot. 2000).
ΚΠ
1995 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 26 Feb. (Business section) 5 To fix software that carries the millennium bug, the code must be run through a decompiling program that converts the computer code into languages like Cobol.
2000 Times 11 Jan. 2/8 The millennium bug caused just 67 serious computer failures in the world during the first week of 2000.

Derivatives

miˈllenniumism n. rare = millenarianism n.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > doctrine of human perfectibility > [noun] > belief in coming of millennium
millenarism1650
millennism1676
millennianism1692
millenarianism1829
millenniumism1832
1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 121 Who writes Political Economy, and Phrenology, and Millenniumism, but Scotchmen?
1985 New Scientist 6 June 30/3 In following Arianism and milleniumism he believed he was returning to primitive Christianity.
millenniumite n. Obsolete rare = millenarian n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > doctrine of human perfectibility > [noun] > belief in coming of millennium > believer in
millenary1561
millenarist1645
millenarian1648
milliary1650
millenar1654
millennist1664
millennian1693
millenniary1810
millennianite1834
millenniumite1837
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse > believer in
millenary1561
chiliast1611
millenarist1645
millenarian1648
milliary1650
millenar1654
Fifth-monarchy man1655
millennist1664
millennian1693
Fifth-monarchist1736
millenniary1810
millennianite1834
millennialist1835
millenniumite1837
eschatologist1877
millenarianist1971
1837 New Monthly Mag. 49 341 The movement party, with its train of optimists, millenniumites, and other indescribable shades and varieties of perfectibility-men.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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