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    This word has two uses. The old, plain use is just an adjective meaning 'about a thousand years' — a millennial event happens once every thousand years. The use you hear all the time now is different: a millennial is a person born roughly between 1981 and 1996, so someone who became an adult around the year 2000. People use it to talk about a whole generation's habits, tastes, and problems — sometimes , sometimes as a light complaint ('typical millennial').

    千禧世代(指1981–1996年間出生的人)

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組成milleni- (thousand, from Latin mille) + -al (relating to). A millennium is a thousand years; millennial describes something tied to that.

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  • millenniumshares the Latin root milleni-, meaning a thousand

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millennialadj/mɪˈlɛn.ɪ.əl/

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    Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.

    • The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee / About his shadowy sides: above him swell / Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; […]
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    Occurring every thousand years.

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    Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium.

    • [I]t is highly likely that some preachers may have called on millennial frettings for their purposes. The theologian Abbo of Fleury recalled a premillennial sermon in his youth which did precisely this.
    • But I would urge you to resist the temptation to swoon into "Waking Life" as though it were a dizzy millennial throwback to a 60's trip movie.
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    Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening.

    • a millennial fair
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    ChristianitySynonym of millenarian (“pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth”).

    • the millennial judgment
    • VVhereas the very Povver of the Civil Magisſtrate and his ſecurity is hazarded by vvild and hot-ſpirited men, that vvould raiſe a Fifth Monarchie by Bloud and Rapine, and tumble dovvn all Government, […] and that they are the Pioners to level all plain, and break all Government in pieces, that Chriſt, the Fifth Monarch, may perſonally come and begin his Millennial Empire upon Earth; […]

millennialnoun/mɪˈlɛn.ɪ.əl/

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    demographicsdemographyOften capitalized: a person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century, from around the early 1980s to the mid-1990s and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E., characterized by their familiarity with computer technology and poorer financial prospects than their parents.

    • Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.
    • Meet the Millennials, born in or after 1982—the "Babies on Board" of the early [Ronald] Reagan years, the "Have You Hugged Your Child Today?" sixth graders of the early [Bill] Clinton years, the teens of Columbine, and, this year, the much-touted high school Class of 2000, now invading the nation's campuses.
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    obsoleterareA thousandth anniversary; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.

    • The Magyar celebrates the millennial of Hungary, not of Austro-Hungary.

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