Meaning of millennial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of millennial.
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2. Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.
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3. Occurring every thousand years.
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4. Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium.
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5. Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening.
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6. Often capitalized: of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s (with 1996 births cited as the last Millennial year), and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E.
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7. Synonym of millenarian (“pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth”).
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Equivalents

Examples

“The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee / About his shadowy sides: above him swell / Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; […]”

“But I would urge you to resist the temptation to swoon into "Waking Life" as though it were a dizzy millennial throwback to a 60's trip movie.”

“As for Mr. [Thomas] Pynchon's conjuring of millennial New York, it's a total mishmash.”

“a millennial fair”

“the millennial generation”

“He was suffering from a typical millennial problem: Which is the correct emoji to use?”

“Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.”

“When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single "Boyfriend" was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber's Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.”

“Many people, or at least a handful of very loud people, hate to being dubbed Millennial. They see it as derogatory.”

“But, while many have jumped to label the astrology boom as another millennial trend, that may not actually be the case.”

“We make hits / Two broke millennial men / And we'd do it again”

“the millennial judgment”

“VVhereas the very Povver of the Civil Magisſtrate and his ſecurity is hazarded by vvild and hot-ſpirited men, that vvould raiſe a Fifth Monarchie by Bloud and Rapine, and tumble dovvn all Government, […] and that they are the Pioners to level all plain, and break all Government in pieces, that Chriſt, the Fifth Monarch, may perſonally come and begin his Millennial Empire upon Earth; […]”

“This is that illuſtrious Reign of Chriſt in his Millennial Empire of Love, vvhen the Chriſtian life ſhall take place, and Opinions and Perſecutions ſhall be done avvay.”

“But their reciprocal, unſelfiſh Aid, / Affords an Emblem of Millennial Love.”

“Every tenant was quite sure things would be different when the reins got into his hands—there was to be a millennial abundance of new gates, allowances of lime, and returns of ten per cent.”

“Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.”

“Many people, or at least a handful of very loud people, hate to being dubbed Millennial. They see it as derogatory.”

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