Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the generation born from the early 1980s to late 1990s, especially in the United States and Canada; a member of Generation Y.
- adjective Of or relating to a millennium.
- adjective Relating to or being a group or movement that believes in a coming millennium, as of prosperity or justice.
- adjective Of or relating to the generation born from the early 1980s to late 1990s, especially in the United States and Canada.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of or relating to a thousand years; pertaining to a millennium, or specifically to the millennium: as, a millennial period; millennial expectations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Referring to the 1,000th
anniversary of an event or happening: millennial fair. - adjective Occurring every thousand years
- adjective Occurring at the end or beginning of a millennium
- adjective Christianity Referring to the
millennium : the millennial judgment. - noun A person from the
generation which grew up in the 90's and 2000's.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years
Etymologies
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Examples
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Certainly, it's also being driven by, you know, these, what we call the millennial generation, folks in their 20s, who have much different attitudes than the boomers did about race and gender and sexuality, and just their whole attitude is sort of beginning to be felt.
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Around these cluster the magical hopes which we call millennial or chiliastic.
ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994
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Around these cluster the magical hopes which we call millennial or chiliastic.
ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994
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Around these cluster the magical hopes which we call millennial or chiliastic.
ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994
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Worse, they are scares deliberately distributed by consulting firms and others with an interest in millennial angst.
The Y2K Problem 1998
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Hence this is a leading feature in millennial blessedness (Isa 65: 20, 22). for very age -- literally, "for multitude of days."
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To be realized fully in millennial times (Isa 11: 6-9). break the bow ... out of the earth -- rather, "out of the land"; that is,
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"Question, is the battle of Armageddon before or after the thousand year period of time known as the millennial kingdom?"
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The slight designer, clad in a somber uniform of All Saints trousers and Prada patent leather sneakers, was surprisingly calm beneath his signature coiffure and decidedly more demure than his onscreen personality who has coined millennial catchphrases such as "Fierce!" and "Hot Tranny mess."
Nicole Berrie: Designer Christian Siriano Earns His Cool Factor Nicole Berrie 2011
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The slight designer, clad in a somber uniform of All Saints trousers and Prada patent leather sneakers, was surprisingly calm beneath his signature coiffure and decidedly more demure than his onscreen personality who has coined millennial catchphrases such as "Fierce!" and "Hot Tranny mess."
Nicole Berrie: Designer Christian Siriano Earns His Cool Factor Nicole Berrie 2011
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I lean into the looseness by wearing an oversized shirt hanging out – I’m told the French/millennial tuck (half in) is passé.
‘They add 10 years to my age!’ What happened when a millennial and a gen Zer swapped jeans Morwenna Ferrier 2025
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Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
—Tennyson, 'The Kraken Wakes'
July 15, 2008