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millennium : [məl'ɛniəm] Millennium \Mil*len"ni*um\ (m[i^]l*l[e^]n"n[i^]*[u^]m), n. [LL., fr. L. mille a thousand annus a year. See {Mile}, and {Annual}.] 1. A period of one thousand years. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically: The period of a thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence: A long period of happiness, righteousness, and prosperity, usually considered as being in the indefinite future. [PJC] 4. A thousandth anniversary; especially, Each first day of January falling in a year which is a multiple of one thousand, such as in 1000 a. d. or 2000 a. d.; as, the second millenium will be celebrated on January 1, 2000; also used attributively, as a millenium celebration. Note: Technically, if the calendar of the Common Era (Anno Domini) is considered as beginning on January 1, 1 a. d., then the millenium will fall in each year ending in 001, as in 1001 a. d. or January 1, 2001 a. d.. However in the common culture, the change of the first digit of the year from 1 to 2, as from 1999 to 2000 is considered as the more symbolic event, especially since the dating of the beginning of the Christian era is somewhat arbitrary, having been an attempt to fix the date of the birth of Christ, and being considered by scholars as being in error by as much as five years. [PJC] millennium n 1: a span of 1000 years [synonym: {millennium}, {millenary}] 2: (New Testament) in Revelations 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 3: the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) [synonym: {millennium}, {millenary}] 124 Moby Thesaurus words for "millennium": Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, G, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, M, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, Shangri-la, Utopia, abundant year, academic year, age of Aquarius, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, cloudland, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dreamland, dystopia, era of prosperity, faerie, fair weather, fairyland, fiscal year, fortnight, golden age, golden era, golden time, good times, grand, halcyon days, heaven, heyday, hour, kakotopia, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz, kiloliter, kilometer, kingdom come, lakh, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, leap year, lotus land, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millepede, milligram, milliliter, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, myriad, one hundred thousand, palmy days, paradise, piping times, promised land, prosperity, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, reign of Saturn, rosy era, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, sunshine, ten thousand, term, thou, thousand, trimester, twelvemonth, utopia, week, weekday, wonderland, yard, year Millennium a thousand years; the name given to the era mentioned in Rev. 20:1-7. Some maintain that Christ will personally appear on earth for the purpose of establishing his kingdom at the beginning of this millennium. Those holding this view are usually called "millenarians." On the other hand, it is maintained, more in accordance with the teaching of Scripture, we think, that Christ's second advent will not be premillennial, and that the right conception of the prospects and destiny of his kingdom is that which is taught, e.g., in the parables of the leaven and the mustard-seed. The triumph of the gospel, it is held, must be looked for by the wider and more efficient operation of the very forces that are now at work in extending the gospel; and that Christ will only come again at the close of this dispensation to judge the world at the "last day." The millennium will thus precede his coming. |
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