millennium

IPA(Pronunciation)

/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

Noun

with-definite-article

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).

Japanese Meaning

千年紀：1000年間の期間や時代を指す。 / キリスト教において、キリストが地上で治世を行うとされる1000年間の時代、千年王国とも呼ばれる。

What is this buttons?

The ancient oak tree had stood for nearly a millennium, its rings recording centuries of weather and history.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その古いオークの木はほぼ千年間立ち続け、その年輪は何世紀にもわたる気候や歴史を記録していた。

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Sense（1）

A period of time consisting of one thousand years.

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Sense（2）

(Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).

An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium, and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.

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Sense（3）

A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.

But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium.

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