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单词 millenary
释义

millenary

/mɪˈlɛnəri / /ˈmɪlɪnəri /
noun (plural millenaries)
1A period of a thousand years. Compare with millennium.
1.1A thousandth anniversary.Clearly, much of what was propagated about Alfred at the time of the millenary was based on the accretion of centuries of tradition and myth....
  • The Alfred the Great millenary in 1901 makes this problem apparent.
adjective
Consisting of a thousand people, years, etc. he mustered millenary forces...
  • For them, the millenary celebrations proffered an avenue to the rebuilding of the cultural self-confidence needed to continue ruling the empire.
  • Thornycroft was thus largely given free rein to devise an idealized image of Anglo-Saxon Englishness in his statue for the millenary commemoration.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from late Latin millenarius 'having a thousand', based on Latin mille 'thousand'.

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