Definition of millennium
plural millennia
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\-nē-ə\
or millenniums
1 a
: the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation 3) 20 during which holiness is to prevail and Christ is to reign on earth
b
: a period of great happiness or human perfection
2 a
: a period of 1000 years;
especially
: one reckoned from the beginning of the Christian era
- at the start of the third millennium
b
: a 1000th anniversary or its celebration
- In 2015 the city of Leipzig, Germany, celebrated its millennium.
