millennium

/mɪˈlɛniəm/

nounmil · len · ni · um

Remember it as: **mill + ENN + ium** — a *mill* makes you think of **1,000**, and there are **two N’s** in the middle: mill-e**nn**-ium.

Yes, it's millennium. The tricky part is the middle: **mill-eNN-ium** (double **l** and double **n**).

Definitions

  1. nouna period of 1,000 years
  2. nounthe 1,000-year anniversary of an event
  3. noun(often capitalized) the time around the year 2000

Examples

  • “Many people celebrated the new millennium with fireworks and parties.”
  • “Archaeologists found tools that had been buried for nearly a millennium.”
  • “The city planned a special exhibit to mark the millennium of its founding.”

Synonyms

thousand yearsthousand-year periodkiloannummillenary

Translations

ES milenioPT milênioFR millénaire

Common misspellings

mileniummilleniummillenniammillenniom

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