Millennium



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.一千年; ( 未来的) 太平盛世
• ［英］ n.一千年; ( 未来的) 太平盛世 ( hoped-for period of happiness and prosperity)

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural millennia or -niums)

• Etymology: New Latin, from Latin mille thousand + New Latin -ennium (as in biennium)
• Date: circa 1638
• 1.
  • a. the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 during which holiness is to prevail and Christ is to reign on earth
  • b. a period of great happiness or human perfection
• 2.
  • a. a period of 1000 years; especially one reckoned from the beginning of the Christian era <at the start of the third millennium>
  • b. a 1000th anniversary or its celebration

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