Definizione monolingua

millennium

millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)

1. A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
2. (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to some interpretations of Revelation 20:1-5).
   • 1911, Saki, ‘Tobermory’, The Chronicles of Clovis:

     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.

3. A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 318:

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

4. (with definite article) The year 2000.

Definizione dizionario millennium

	millennio
	thousand-year period
	A period of 1000 years.

millenario

Altri significati:

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

(with definite article) The year 2000.

(Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to some interpretations of Revelation 20:1-5).

(new) millennium

year 2000

A period of time consisting of one thousand years.