millennial

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Synonyms: millennia, millennian, amillennial, millenial, millennium, millenia, bimillennial, trillennial, millennist, millennials, millenniary

Antonyms: millennia, millennian, amillennial, millenial, millennium, millenia, bimillennial, trillennial, millennist, millennials, millenniary

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Adjective

1. [[thousand|Thousand]]-[[year-old]]; also {{lb|en|by extension|loosely}} thousands of years old.
2. [[occur|Occurring]] every thousand years.
3. Occurring at, or relating to, the [[beginning#Noun|beginning]] or [[end#Noun|end]] of a [[millennium]].
4. Referring to the [[thousandth]] [[anniversary]] of an [[event#Noun|event]] or [[happening#Noun|happening]].
5. {{senseid|en|demography adj}}{{lb|en|by extension|originally|US|demography}} ''Often [[capitalize]]d'': of or relating to, or [[characteristic#Adjective|characteristic]] of, [[person#Noun|people]] [[bear#Verb|born]] in the last [[two#Numeral|two]] [[decade]]s of the [[20th]] [[century]] from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s (with 1996 births cited as the last Millennial year), and who [[reach#Verb|reached]] [[adulthood]] early in the [[third]] [[millennium]] {{C.E.}}
6. {{lb|en|Christianity}} {{synonym of|en|millenarian|t=pertaining to the [[belief]] in an [[impending#Adjective|impending]] [[period#Noun|period]] of [[one#Numeral|one]] [[thousand]] [[year]]s of [[peace#Noun|peace]] and [[righteousness]] [[associated#Adjective|associated]] with the [[second coming|Second Coming]] of [[Christ]] and his [[reign#Noun|reign]] on [[earth#Noun|earth]]}}.

Noun

1. {{senseid|en|demographic}}{{lb|en|originally|US|demography}} ''Often [[capitalize]]d'': a [[person#Noun|person]] from the [[generation]] [[bear#Verb|born]] in the last [[two#Numeral|two]] [[decade]]s of the [[20th]] [[century]], from around the early 1980s to the mid-1990s and who [[reach#Verb|reached]] [[adulthood]] early in the [[third]] [[millennium]] {{C.E.}}, [[characterize]]d by their [[familiarity]] with [[computer]] [[technology]] and [[poor#Adjective|poorer]] [[financial#Adjective|financial]] [[prospect#Noun|prospects]] than their [[parent#Noun|parents]].
2. {{senseid|en|one-thousandth anniversary}} {{lb|en|obsolete|rare}} A [[thousandth]] [[anniversary]]; also, a [[celebration]] of such an anniversary.

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