the millennium

noun

: the beginning of the third period of a thousand years counted from the beginning of the Christian era : the year 2000

We had a party to celebrate the millennium.

Examples of the millennium in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 2018, the Red Sox won their fourth World Series of the millennium with Devers as their starting third baseman. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026

Gin-Gin Mule The turn of the millennium is when vodka was at the apex of its cultural power. — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026

Hip-hop tilted the pop axis at the turn of the millennium and remains an arbiter of its taste. — Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026

Morris brought his profiling skills to a pre-Housewives Bravo with First Person, released at the turn of the millennium and difficult to find in the streaming era before the filmmaker uploaded it to his YouTube page during the pandemic. — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for the millennium

• biennium
• quinquennium