different between millennium vs premillennialism

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

Etymology

From premillennial +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?i?m??l?n??l?z(?)m/

Noun

premillennialism (uncountable)

1. A concept in Christian eschatology that the second coming will happen before the millennium.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 912:

     Premillennialism stressed division and separation within society, to gather in the elect, and its frostiness to Enlightenment projects of social reform contributed to that peculiar process by which ‘liberal’ has become a word of abuse in the United States, in sharp contrast to its esteem in European society.

Related terms

• amillennialism
• postmillennialism
• premillennialist

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