millennium

IPA: mʌɫˈɛniʌm

A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
(Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
(with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

Examples of "millennium" in Sentences

However, I had just made what I called my millennium resolution—a resolution for the next one thousand years.
A system that at the turning of the new century, and new millennium, is still atoning for its sins of the '70s.
My beliefs are that God may have designed the universe, but did it over more than a week maybe we got our units of time mixed up; a day should be what we call a millennium?
Proclaiming your intention to cut greenhouse gases by 99.9% before the end of next millennium is so much safer than suggesting a date for troop withdrawals from Iraq, or promising to sort out problems in the National Health Service.