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

But the union report, prepared by EY, takes a longer-term view, showing that the globalization of production has been underway since the turn of the millennium. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

Fuelled in part by the overprescription of painkillers like OxyContin in the 1990s, the market for unregulated substitutes exploded into what became regarded as an epidemic by the turn of the millennium. — New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2026

That began to change around the turn of the millennium, when physicists started smashing gold ions together at nearly the speed of light inside the giant particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York State. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2026

Segafredo Segafredo L’Originale, a rousing Italian-style cafe and bar that also opened at the dawn of the millennium on Lincoln Road, lasted 26 years, until May. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for the millennium

• biennium
• quinquennium