millennial

IPA: mɪɫˈɛniʌɫ

noun

  • (originally US, demography) 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.
  • (obsolete, rare) A thousandth anniversary; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.
  • Alternative letter-case form of millennial [(originally US, demography) 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.]

adjective

  • Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.
  • Occurring every thousand years.
  • Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium.
  • Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening.
  • (Christianity) 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”)
  • (by extension, originally US, demography) 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.
  • Alternative letter-case form of millennial [Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.]
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Examples of "millennial" in Sentences

  • Around these cluster the magical hopes which we call millennial or chiliastic.
  • Worse, they are scares deliberately distributed by consulting firms and others with an interest in millennial angst.
  • "Question, is the battle of Armageddon before or after the thousand year period of time known as the millennial kingdom?"
  • Hence this is a leading feature in millennial blessedness (Isa 65: 20, 22). for very age -- literally, "for multitude of days."
  • To be realized fully in millennial times (Isa 11: 6-9). break the bow ... out of the earth -- rather, "out of the land"; that is,
  • Certainly, it's also being driven by, you know, these, what we call the millennial generation, folks in their 20s, who have much different attitudes than the boomers did about race and gender and sexuality, and just their whole attitude is sort of beginning to be felt.
  • The slight designer, clad in a somber uniform of All Saints trousers and Prada patent leather sneakers, was surprisingly calm beneath his signature coiffure and decidedly more demure than his onscreen personality who has coined millennial catchphrases such as "Fierce!" and "Hot Tranny mess."

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