century
 the millennium
the beginning of a new millennium in the year 2000: （2000年初）千禧新年
How did you celebrate the millennium?你们是怎么庆祝新千年的？
The book is a history of the last two millennia.
Imagine what the world will be like at the end of the next millennium.

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millennium | American Dictionary

millennium
noun[ C ]
us/məˈlen·i·əm/pluralmillenniaus/məˈlen·i·ə/millenniums
a period of 1000 years:
The area has experienced the worst drought in half a millennium.

millennial

adjective[ not gradable ]us/məˈlen·i·əl/

Examples of millennium

millennium
After millennia of dead-ends and extravagant promises, we can now see our way to understanding the mechanisms of ageing.
To begin with, the form and character of the landscape are unlikely to have remained static across the millennia.
Their analyses of macrobotanical remains are consistent with these descriptions and include an analysis of an environment very modified through millennia of cultivation.
Importantly, such speculations assume the prevalence of schizophrenia has remained constant for millennia.
Instead, these core data suggest that regional drying began about 3,000 years ago and that the past three millennia were characterized by variable moisture availability.
As these texts have evolved over millennia and have passed through countless pairs of editorial hands, they defy spatial and temporal attribution.
However mythical its origins, the concept of mentorship has survived the millennia intact.
Within the constraints outlined above, the author has given us a fairly detailed historical account spanning five millennia.
To propose a type of sound change that inheres in a family over generations (indeed, over millennia) raises important questions.
At no time, though, during these two millennia did the imperial system itself appear threatened for any extended period or to any noteworthy degree.
In a more trivial sense, it equally holds true for material culture items which have been in use for several millennia.
To evaluate the causes of reforestation, it will be necessary to explore in greater detail the climate fluctuations of the past few millennia.
Dry conditions appear to have returned during the past two millennia.
Additionally, research is now elucidating some of the basic processes by which crops have evolved over the last few millennia.
The computer, which has arisen through the wealth of achievements of the human mind through the millennia, cannot create anything new.
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Collocations withmillennium

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millennium bug
For some computer experts, it is an alternative way to refer to the "millenniumbug".
millennium celebration
Therefore, the millenniumcelebration, for which the millennium fund was set up, would need a bit of help from its friends.
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