English Dictionary

millennium

/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

noun

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).

The new millennium brought many technological advancements.

意味（1）

A period of time consisting of one thousand years.

The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（4）

(with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.