different between millennium vs centuries

English

Alternative forms

• millenium (archaic)

Etymology

From Late Latin millennium, from Latin m?lle (“thousand”) + -ennium (from annus (“year”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l?n??m/

Noun

millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)

1. A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
2. (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
3. A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
4. (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

Synonyms

• yearthousand
• kiloyear (kyr)
• kiloannum (ka)

Derived terms

• decamillennium
• centimillennium
• millennial
• millennium bug
• millionennium

Translations

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil?ni?m/, [mi?l?n?i?m]

Noun

millennium n (singular definite millenniet, plural indefinite millennier)

1. millennium

Inflection

Synonyms

• årtusinde

Further reading

• millennium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?llennium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?l?.ni.?m/
• Hyphenation: mil?len?ni?um

Noun

millennium n (plural millennia, diminutive milleniumtje n)

1. millennium

Latin

Etymology

From m?lle and annus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mi?l?len.ni.um/, [mi?l??l??n?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mil?len.ni.um/, [mil?l?n?ium]

Noun

m?llennium n (genitive m?llenni? or m?llenn?); second declension

1. millennium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

millennium n (definite singular millenniet, indefinite plural millennier, definite plural millennia or millenniene)

1. millennium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

millennium n (definite singular millenniet, indefinite plural millennium, definite plural millennia)

1. millennium

Swedish

Noun

millennium n

1. a millennium, a period of one thousand years

Declension

Synonyms

• årtusende

See also

• år
• århundrade
• årtionde
• decennium
• sekel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.t??.?iz/
• Hyphenation: cen?tu?ries

Noun

centuries

1. plural of century

Anagrams

• ceintures, enuretics

French

Noun

centuries f

1. plural of centurie

Anagrams

• ceintures, recuisent

Latin

Verb

centuri?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of centuri?