Millennium

Noun

 * 1) A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
 * 2)  The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to some interpretations of Revelation 20:1-5).
 * 3) A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
 * 4) * 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.
 * 1)  The year 2000.

Thesaurus
Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, G, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, M, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, Shangri-la, Utopia, abundant year, academic year, age of Aquarius, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, cloudland, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dreamland, dystopia, era of prosperity, faerie, fair weather, fairyland, fiscal year, fortnight, golden age, golden era, golden time, good times, grand, halcyon days, heaven, heyday, hour, kakotopia, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz, kiloliter, kilometer, kingdom come, lakh, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, leap year, lotus land, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millepede, milligram, milliliter, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, myriad, one hundred thousand, palmy days, paradise, piping times, promised land, prosperity, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, reign of Saturn, rosy era, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, sunshine, ten thousand, term, thou, thousand, trimester, twelvemonth, utopia, week, weekday, wonderland, yard, year

Etymology
From post-classical millennium:, from  mille: + -ennium: (from annus:).

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Breton: milved, -où
 * Catalan: mil·lenni
 * Chinese: 千年
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: jarmilo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, þúsöld
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malayalam: സഹസ്രാബ്ദം (sahasraabdam)
 * Polish: tysiąclecie, milenium


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: тисућлеће, tisućleće
 * Slovak: tisícročie, milénium
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: årtusende,
 * Telugu: సహస్రాబ్ది (sahasraabdi), వెయ్యేళ్ళు (veyyaeLLu)
 * Thai: สหัสวรรษ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: тисячеліття
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: milyel


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Czech: milénium


 * Finnish:

Derived terms

 * millennial
 * millennium bug

Noun

 * 1) millennium

Synonyms

 * årtusinde

Noun

 * 1) millennium

Noun

 * 1) millennium (thousand-year period)

Noun

 * 1) a millennium, a period of one thousand years

Synonyms

 * årtusende