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# millennium

«millennium» in Mova's school dictionary: **a period of a thousand years** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a millennium, millennia or millenniums)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A millennium is a period of a thousand years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/#m1)

2) «The millennium» often means the moment when a new thousand years starts in the calendar, celebrated with big parties and fireworks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/#m2)

3) (Bible, church) The Millennium is a thousand-year reign of Christ described in the Book of Revelation, which Christians understand in different ways. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and history lessons, pupils learn time words: a decade is 10 years, a century is 100 years, and a millennium is 1,000 years; timelines may show several millennia. In science, «over millennia» means over many thousands of years, as rivers carve valleys. Phrases: «a new millennium», «for millennia», «the turn of the millennium».

### examples

- A millennium is a thousand years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/#x1)
- Ten centuries make a millennium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/#x2)
- The pyramids have stood for several millennia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/#x3)
- People celebrated the new millennium with fireworks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/#x4)
- Rivers shape valleys over millennia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/#x5)
- How many decades are in a millennium? One hundred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/#x6)

### note

Spelling trap: double l and double n: millennium. Plural: millennia (more common) or millenniums. In maths: 1 millennium = 10 centuries = 100 decades = 1,000 years. «Millennial» as a noun means a person born around the end of the last millennium.

### In the corpora

- [That's why a picky grandad says the new millennium really began in 2001, not at the huge parties of 2000.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/3/)
- [No person lives a millennium, though some bristlecone pine trees in the USA are over 4,000 years old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/7/)
- [The third millennium began on 1 January 2001, but most people celebrated in 2000.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/14/)
- [No human lives a millennium, but some bristlecone pine trees in the USA are over 4,000 years old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/18/)
- [The oldest people live about 120 years, so a millennium is about 8 of the longest lifetimes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «millennium» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennium/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.