millennium
/məˈɫɛniəm/
a period of a thousand years
millennium in a sentence
“Humanity entered the third millennium with great optimism.”
Origin of millennium
Latin mille thousand + annus year
Related Words
antiquity
the ancient past, especially before the Middle Ages
posterity
all future generations of people
zeitgeist
the defining spirit or mood of a particular period
fin de siècle
relating to the end of a century, especially the 19th century
halcyon
denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy
bygone
belonging to an earlier time