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/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/
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mɪˈlɛnɪəm
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A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
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But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.
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The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia.
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.
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After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.
The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
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A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.
Any long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.
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Near-synonym: utopia
expecting a millennium
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When rumour got afoot that in future mechanical power would be unlimited, the people expected a millennium.
For Marx, it is true, the collapse of capitalism and the communist millennium were 'necessary' in a different sense from that in which capitalism had, as he believed, evolved from feudalism. No one, at the time, had set himself the aim of 'establishing' capitalism'.
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The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
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usher in the millennium
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The Nazis' concept for the so-called Thousand-Year Reich of their infallible Leader has been described as but a pale pseudoreligious false-prophet imitation of the Christian concept of the millennium of Christ regnant.
After the purifying judgments which attended the personal return of Christ to the Earth, He will reign over restored Israel and over the earth for one thousand years. This is the period commonly called the Millennium. The seat of His power will be Jerusalem, and the saints, including the saved of the Dispensation of Grace, viz., the Church, will be associated with Him in His glory.
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.
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Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium, when the end of the world was forecast.
A particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.
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usher in the millennium
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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.
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a span of 1000 years
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(New Testament) in the Book of Revelation it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness
the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
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