bimillenaryn.
/bʌɪˈmɪlɪnəri/ Properly (like millenary) an adjective, meaning: Of or pertaining to two thousand, two thousand strong; but taken to express: A space of two thousand years (for which bimillennium or some derivative of it would be the proper term). Also, the two-thousandth anniversary of an event.
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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
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
1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans 130 To testify the very truth of revelation to a fallen generation, or rather to almost a bi-millenary, which has been in unintermittent traditionary error.
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xi. 192 I didn't meet the full force of his authority until the celebration of the Bimillenary of Virgil.
1971 Bookseller 13 Nov. 2234/3 The only country to commemorate the recent bimillenary of the death of Lucretius was the Soviet Union.
1981 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. a23/5 The exact date on which we should celebrate ‘the bimillenary’ (2,000th anniversary) of Virgil's death was a subject of controversy.
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