Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUK
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.milenyum
2.binyıl

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
  2. (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
  3. A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
  4. (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

Exempel

  • Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.
  • An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium, and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.
  • the end of the world would be heralded by a series of spectacular and symbolic events […]. According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.
  • Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium, when the end of the world was forecast.
  • But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium.

Böjningsformer

Pluralmillennia
Pluralmillenniums

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