millennialadj.n.

Brit.

/mᵻˈlɛnɪəl/, U.S.

/məˈlɛniəl/

Forms: 1600s millenniall, 1600s– millennial, 1800s– millenial (now nonstandard). Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin millennium , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin millennium millennium n. + -al suffix¹. Compare earlier millenary n. and adj., millenarian adj. and n.On spelling variation see note s.v. millennium n.

A. adj.

a. = millenarian adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [adjective] > apocalypse

lasta1225

millenary1577

chiliastic1622

millenarian1626

chiliasticala1638

millenar1654

millennial1660

apocalyptic1663

Fifth-monarchical1679

millenniarya1778

millennian1790

eschatological1854

millenarist1894

millennialist1952

millenarianist1986

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. xvii. 204 That Christ, the Fifth Monarch, may personally come and begin his Millennial Empire upon Earth.

1664 H. More Expos. 7 Epist. Pref. c vij b This is that illustrious Reign of Christ in his Millenniall Empire of Love.

1691 R. Baxter Glorious Kingdom of Christ ii. 12 The Millennial Opinion I have never been a censorious opposer of.

1745 E. Young Consolation 37 Their [sc. the planets'] reciprocal, unselfish Aid, Affords an Emblem of Millennial Love.

1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor IV. xviii. 11 The last millennial glory.

1877 W. Sparrow Serm. xvii. 229 But in Millennial times, how will things be changed!

1947 Archit. Rev. 102 39/2 It was in New Lebanon under the leadership of these two Americans that the creed and conduct of the Shakers received its shape and found its expression in the ‘Millenial Laws’.

1986 P. B. Clarke Black Paradise 11 Almost all of them, including the Rastafarian movement, are millenial movements prophesying in their different ways the imminent end of the present age and the establishment of a totally new dispensation.

†b. In extended use. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity > of times or places

golden?a1439

wealthyc1460

Saturnian1592

silver1659

millenary1700

heroic1793

Pericleana1822

flush1840

millennial1859

belle époque1957

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > aspiration, ambition > [adjective]

ambitiousc1384

aspiring1577

heroical1581

high-flyinga1586

high-reaching1593

soaringa1616

aspirant1808

would-be1813

Diotrephic1838

Diotrephian1845

Diotrephesian1862

millennial1897

1797 L. Hopkins Guillotina in Connecticut Courant 9 Jan. 1/1 And though some faithless churls refuse, To credit such millennial news, Yet Priests, and Doctors, half a score,..Sing hallelujahs to the Strokers.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vii. 156 Every tenant was quite sure..there was to be a millennial abundance of new gates..and returns of ten per cent.

1897 Marquis of Salisbury Speech in Lords 19 Jan. You must not think that we are the victims of millennial anticipations if we hope that something may be done by an arbitration treaty.

2. Thousand-year-old, or (indefinitely) thousands of years old; of a thousand years.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > of or relating to specific number of years

millenary1604

triennal1611

Olympiadical1638

decennal1648

decennial1656

tricennial1656

octodesexcentenary1677

sexmillennial1690

sexmillenary1728

quinquennial1746

milliary1753

decennalian1794

millennial1807

chiliadal1816

enneaeteric1846

chiliadic1854

decennary1855

sexcentenary1864

millennian1873

tricentenary1882

tricentennial1883

Olympiadic1890

postmillennial1977

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 56 Millenial cedars wave their honors wide.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Kraken 6 Huge sponges of millenial growth and height.

1899 D. G. Hogarth in Authority & Archæol. 231 The middle of the second millennial period b.c.

1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men ii. 20 Beneath the ghosts of millennial rain the clay land lay down in creek.

1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 30 May 24/1 They have recorded millennial cycles in the climate, interrupted by the advance and retreat of glaciers and scattershot volcanic eruptions.

3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the latter years of the 20th cent. and first years of the 21st; spec. denoting phenomena or events designed to mark the end of the millennium, esp. taking place on New Year's Eve 1999. Also: denoting feelings of expectation or apprehension associated with the turn of the millennium. millennial generation n. originally U.S. those people reaching young adulthood around the year 2000.

ΚΠ

1983 Amer. Hist. Rev. 88 962/2 Terminal Visions is a major contribution to understanding the current vacillation between millennial hope and fin-de-siècle despair.

1991 W. Strauss & N. Howe Generations xi. 335 These kids in green coats and yellow blouses are the vanguard of America's Millennial Generation. Cute. Cheerful. Scoutlike. Wanted.

1995 Face Aug. 51/1 Just maybe, the millennial man should disappear upstairs to rummage around for that cropped mohair jumper his ex-girlfriend left behind.

1998 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 Nov. The obsessions of our millennial generation appear to relate mainly in the consumption of drugs and the mockery of the past.

2000 N.Y. Times 1 Jan. a3/2 There will be a makeup party in Heroes Square for those who missed the millennial one.

2017 Sun (Nexis) 8 Nov. 10 The snowflakes may be a small minority of the millennial generation but their shrill voices rise high above the rest of ours.

B. n.

†1. A thousandth anniversary; a celebration of this. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > specific anniversaries

jubileec1386

quinquagenary1588

centenary1661

millennium1664

secular1706

coming of age1788

centennial1791

tricentenary1846

tercentenary1855

quinquennial1857

ter-millenary1864

sexcentenary1865

semi-centenary1870

bicentenary1872

septcentenary1873

quincentenary1877

sesquicentennial1880

quadricentennial1882

bicentennial1883

quatercentenary1883

tricentennial1883

tercentennial1884

quincentennial1885

octocentenary1888

quadrennial1890

quingentenary1892

octingentenary1893

ruby anniversary1893

semi-jubilee1893

septingentenary1893

millennial1896

millenary1897

quadringenary1905

quingenary1911

bimillenary1961

sesquicentenary1961

quasquicentennial1962

nongenary1966

octocentennial1994

1896 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 1/3 In order to celebrate the millennial of Hungary with proper respect.

2. Originally U.S. A member of the generation born between the early 1980s and the mid 1990s, noted in particular for their increased familiarity with and reliance on digital and electronic technology when contrasted with previous generations and for having poorer financial and material prospects than their parents; a member of the millennial generation (see millennial generation n. at sense A. 3).So-called on account of the oldest in the cohort reaching young adulthood around the year 2000, the term is typically used to refer to people born between 1981 and about 1996, although there is some variation in this. Millennials are often characterized negatively as self-involved, hypersensitive, and entitled, but also more positively as environmentally aware and socially conscious, esp. with respect to racial, sexual, and gender diversity.Sometimes also known as Generation Yers (see Generation Yer n. at Generation Y n. Derivatives) or occasionally echo boomers (see echo boomer n. at echo boom n. Derivatives) because they are primarily the children of the baby boomers.

ΚΠ

1991 W. Strauss & N. Howe Generations xi. 337 First-wave Millennials are riding a powerful crest of protective concern.

2001 Day (New London, Connecticut) 19 Apr. a3 You can call them Generation Y, Millennials or even Echo Boomers, a tag created as a nod to their Baby Boomer parents.

2018 D. Gebrial in G. K. Bhambra et al. Decolonising University ii. 21 This narrative of student activists as incurious, navel-gazing millennials pampered by 1990s soft parenting—rather than an energised, highly informed generation that know they deserve better than the future of precarity and debt awaiting them upon graduation.

Derivatives

miˈllennially adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [adverb] > every specific number of years

triennially1689

quinquennially1727

septennially1729

biennially1775

quadrennially1785

sexennially1824

millennially1851

octennially1854

decennially1874

1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions 326 The Abyss, in which he will be millennially confined, is that proleptic Hell.

1991 D. Hirst in Past & Present 45 The worth of catechizing..also ran into doctrinal obstacles: some ministers, like Cromwell's favourite Peter Sterry, were millenially convinced that the time for such labours was past.

2017 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Apr. Her second collection..showcased what the Atlantic magazine has described as her ‘witty, sexually slippery, polymorphous and Millennially mischievous’ work.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	millennial
释义	millennialadj.n. Brit. /mᵻˈlɛnɪəl/, U.S. /məˈlɛniəl/ Forms: 1600s millenniall, 1600s– millennial, 1800s– millenial (now nonstandard). Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin millennium , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < post-classical Latin millennium millennium n. + -al suffix¹. Compare earlier millenary n. and adj., millenarian adj. and n.On spelling variation see note s.v. millennium n. A. adj. 1. a. = millenarian adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [adjective] > apocalypse lasta1225 millenary1577 chiliastic1622 millenarian1626 chiliasticala1638 millenar1654 millennial1660 apocalyptic1663 Fifth-monarchical1679 millenniarya1778 millennian1790 eschatological1854 millenarist1894 millennialist1952 millenarianist1986 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. xvii. 204 That Christ, the Fifth Monarch, may personally come and begin his Millennial Empire upon Earth. 1664 H. More Expos. 7 Epist. Pref. c vij b This is that illustrious Reign of Christ in his Millenniall Empire of Love. 1691 R. Baxter Glorious Kingdom of Christ ii. 12 The Millennial Opinion I have never been a censorious opposer of. 1745 E. Young Consolation 37 Their [sc. the planets'] reciprocal, unselfish Aid, Affords an Emblem of Millennial Love. 1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor IV. xviii. 11 The last millennial glory. 1877 W. Sparrow Serm. xvii. 229 But in Millennial times, how will things be changed! 1947 Archit. Rev. 102 39/2 It was in New Lebanon under the leadership of these two Americans that the creed and conduct of the Shakers received its shape and found its expression in the ‘Millenial Laws’. 1986 P. B. Clarke Black Paradise 11 Almost all of them, including the Rastafarian movement, are millenial movements prophesying in their different ways the imminent end of the present age and the establishment of a totally new dispensation. †b. In extended use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity > of times or places golden?a1439 wealthyc1460 Saturnian1592 silver1659 millenary1700 heroic1793 Pericleana1822 flush1840 millennial1859 belle époque1957 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > aspiration, ambition > [adjective] ambitiousc1384 aspiring1577 heroical1581 high-flyinga1586 high-reaching1593 soaringa1616 aspirant1808 would-be1813 Diotrephic1838 Diotrephian1845 Diotrephesian1862 millennial1897 1797 L. Hopkins Guillotina in Connecticut Courant 9 Jan. 1/1 And though some faithless churls refuse, To credit such millennial news, Yet Priests, and Doctors, half a score,..Sing hallelujahs to the Strokers. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vii. 156 Every tenant was quite sure..there was to be a millennial abundance of new gates..and returns of ten per cent. 1897 Marquis of Salisbury Speech in Lords 19 Jan. You must not think that we are the victims of millennial anticipations if we hope that something may be done by an arbitration treaty. 2. Thousand-year-old, or (indefinitely) thousands of years old; of a thousand years. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > of or relating to specific number of years millenary1604 triennal1611 Olympiadical1638 decennal1648 decennial1656 tricennial1656 octodesexcentenary1677 sexmillennial1690 sexmillenary1728 quinquennial1746 milliary1753 decennalian1794 millennial1807 chiliadal1816 enneaeteric1846 chiliadic1854 decennary1855 sexcentenary1864 millennian1873 tricentenary1882 tricentennial1883 Olympiadic1890 postmillennial1977 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 56 Millenial cedars wave their honors wide. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Kraken 6 Huge sponges of millenial growth and height. 1899 D. G. Hogarth in Authority & Archæol. 231 The middle of the second millennial period b.c. 1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men ii. 20 Beneath the ghosts of millennial rain the clay land lay down in creek. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 30 May 24/1 They have recorded millennial cycles in the climate, interrupted by the advance and retreat of glaciers and scattershot volcanic eruptions. 3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the latter years of the 20th cent. and first years of the 21st; spec. denoting phenomena or events designed to mark the end of the millennium, esp. taking place on New Year's Eve 1999. Also: denoting feelings of expectation or apprehension associated with the turn of the millennium. millennial generation n. originally U.S. those people reaching young adulthood around the year 2000. ΚΠ 1983 Amer. Hist. Rev. 88 962/2 Terminal Visions is a major contribution to understanding the current vacillation between millennial hope and fin-de-siècle despair. 1991 W. Strauss & N. Howe Generations xi. 335 These kids in green coats and yellow blouses are the vanguard of America's Millennial Generation. Cute. Cheerful. Scoutlike. Wanted. 1995 Face Aug. 51/1 Just maybe, the millennial man should disappear upstairs to rummage around for that cropped mohair jumper his ex-girlfriend left behind. 1998 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 Nov. The obsessions of our millennial generation appear to relate mainly in the consumption of drugs and the mockery of the past. 2000 N.Y. Times 1 Jan. a3/2 There will be a makeup party in Heroes Square for those who missed the millennial one. 2017 Sun (Nexis) 8 Nov. 10 The snowflakes may be a small minority of the millennial generation but their shrill voices rise high above the rest of ours. B. n. †1. A thousandth anniversary; a celebration of this. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > specific anniversaries jubileec1386 quinquagenary1588 centenary1661 millennium1664 secular1706 coming of age1788 centennial1791 tricentenary1846 tercentenary1855 quinquennial1857 ter-millenary1864 sexcentenary1865 semi-centenary1870 bicentenary1872 septcentenary1873 quincentenary1877 sesquicentennial1880 quadricentennial1882 bicentennial1883 quatercentenary1883 tricentennial1883 tercentennial1884 quincentennial1885 octocentenary1888 quadrennial1890 quingentenary1892 octingentenary1893 ruby anniversary1893 semi-jubilee1893 septingentenary1893 millennial1896 millenary1897 quadringenary1905 quingenary1911 bimillenary1961 sesquicentenary1961 quasquicentennial1962 nongenary1966 octocentennial1994 1896 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 1/3 In order to celebrate the millennial of Hungary with proper respect. 2. Originally U.S. A member of the generation born between the early 1980s and the mid 1990s, noted in particular for their increased familiarity with and reliance on digital and electronic technology when contrasted with previous generations and for having poorer financial and material prospects than their parents; a member of the millennial generation (see millennial generation n. at sense A. 3).So-called on account of the oldest in the cohort reaching young adulthood around the year 2000, the term is typically used to refer to people born between 1981 and about 1996, although there is some variation in this. Millennials are often characterized negatively as self-involved, hypersensitive, and entitled, but also more positively as environmentally aware and socially conscious, esp. with respect to racial, sexual, and gender diversity.Sometimes also known as Generation Yers (see Generation Yer n. at Generation Y n. Derivatives) or occasionally echo boomers (see echo boomer n. at echo boom n. Derivatives) because they are primarily the children of the baby boomers. ΚΠ 1991 W. Strauss & N. Howe Generations xi. 337 First-wave Millennials are riding a powerful crest of protective concern. 2001 Day (New London, Connecticut) 19 Apr. a3 You can call them Generation Y, Millennials or even Echo Boomers, a tag created as a nod to their Baby Boomer parents. 2018 D. Gebrial in G. K. Bhambra et al. Decolonising University ii. 21 This narrative of student activists as incurious, navel-gazing millennials pampered by 1990s soft parenting—rather than an energised, highly informed generation that know they deserve better than the future of precarity and debt awaiting them upon graduation. Derivatives miˈllennially adv. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adverb] > every specific number of years triennially1689 quinquennially1727 septennially1729 biennially1775 quadrennially1785 sexennially1824 millennially1851 octennially1854 decennially1874 1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions 326 The Abyss, in which he will be millennially confined, is that proleptic Hell. 1991 D. Hirst in Past & Present 45 The worth of catechizing..also ran into doctrinal obstacles: some ministers, like Cromwell's favourite Peter Sterry, were millenially convinced that the time for such labours was past. 2017 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Apr. Her second collection..showcased what the Atlantic magazine has described as her ‘witty, sexually slippery, polymorphous and Millennially mischievous’ work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1660
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