Definitions
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- noun The 2,000th
anniversary of an event or happening. - adjective Occurring every thousand (2,000)
years and 2millennia .
Etymologies
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From Latin bimillennialis, from bi- ("two") mill- ("thousand") + enni(us) ("yearly").
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Examples
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In an ingenious and thought-provoking paper some time ago, Jerrold Levinson put forward a novel and imaginative thesis purporting to explain why tropism never quite got off the ground, despite its respectable bimillennial launch history (1980).
Tropes Bacon, John 2008
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The almost universal theme of the writers and orators who have celebrated this bimillennial epoch has been the future rather than the past, not the advance that has been made, but the progress that shall be made, ever onward and upward, till the race shall achieve its ineffable destiny.
Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 Edward Bellamy 1874
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