different between millennial vs millenary

English

Etymology

millennium +? -al; surface analysis milli- +? -ennial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l?ni.?l/

Adjective

millennial (not comparable)

1. Referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening.

2. Occurring every thousand years.
3. Occurring at the end or beginning of a millennium.
4. Of or relating to people born in the last two decades of the 20th century.

5. (Christianity) Referring to the millennium, the period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth.

Related terms

• bimillennial
• decamillennial
• millennium
• quadrimillennial
• trimillennial

Translations

Noun

millennial (plural millennials)

2. A demographic term for a person from the generation born from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s; individuals who reached adulthood early in the 3rd millennium, C.E.

Alternative forms

• Millennial

Derived terms

• xennial

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Spanish

Noun

millennial m or f (plural millennials)

1. millennial

English

Etymology

Latin millenarius

Adjective

millenary (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a thousand, especially to a thousand years.
2. Of or pertaining to a millennium; millenarian.
   • 1650, Joseph Hall, The Revelation Unrevealed

     Surely, this operation hath this millenary doctrine had upon the hearts of men, that, though they are thereupon apt to expect an appropinquation of their Saviour for their happy advantage, yet they resolutely put off the thought of his coming to the general judgment of the world for many generations.

Noun

millenary (plural millenaries)

1. (archaic) A period of one thousand years; a millennium.

Anagrams

• minerally