Millenniumname

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  The Kingdom of Christ on Earth, predicted by Christians to come about someday.

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  A particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.

  • Near-synonym: utopia

millenniumnoun/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

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  A period of time consisting of one thousand years.

  • But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
  • How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.
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  The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

  • A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.
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  archaicAny long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.

  • Near-synonym: utopia
  • expecting a millennium

millenniumname/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

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  ChristianityThe period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).

  • usher in the millennium
  • The Nazis' concept for the so-called Thousand-Year Reich of their infallible Leader has been described as but a pale pseudoreligious false-prophet imitation of the Christian concept of the millennium of Christ regnant.
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  archaicA particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.

  • Near-synonym: utopia
  • usher in the millennium