How do you spell millennium or millenium?
The OED gives a number of such spellings from the 18th and 19th centuries. In present-day English, too, the word is frequently spelt millenium. For example, in the Brown Corpus there is 1 millenium against 4 millennium (and 3 millennia);in the LOB Corpus there are 2 millenium against 1 millennium(and 2 millennia).
What is the right spelling of millennium?
millennium – noun
Not millenium. Example: In the late 1990s, everyone made plans to celebrate the next millennium.
What’s the difference between Millenia and millennium?
A millennium is a time period that spans one thousand years or the one-thousand-year anniversary of something. The plural of millennium may be rendered as millennia or as millenniums. As a Latin word, the plural of millennium is rendered as millennia.
What do you mean by Millennium?
1 : a period of 1000 years. 2 : a 1000th anniversary or its celebration. Other Words from millennium. millennial \ -nē-əl \ adjective.
What is the name for 100 000 years?
The word millennium derives from the Latin mille, thousand, and annus, year.
What is an example of millennium?
The definition of a millennium is a period of 1000 years or is an anniversary of the passage of 1000 years. An example of a millennium is the 1000 years from year 1000 to the year 2000. The year 2000 was an example of the millennium.
Which millennium are we in now?
In contemporary history, the third millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era in the Gregorian calendar is the current millennium spanning the years 2001 to 3000 (21st to 30th centuries).
What’s another word for millennium?
Millennium Synonyms – WordHippo Thesaurus.
What is another word for millennium?
1000 years | kiloannum |
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one-thousandth anniversary | turn of the century |
What is the opposite word of millennium?
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for millennium. dark age.
What part of speech is the word millennium?
noun, plural mil·len·ni·ums, mil·len·ni·a [mi-len-ee-uh]. a period of 1,000 years. the millennium, the period of 1,000 years during which Christ will reign on earth.
What year was Millennium?
Thus, the 1st millennium is defined as spanning years 1–1000 and the 2nd the years 1001–2000. Although numerous popular celebrations marked the start of the year 2000, the 21st century and 3rd millennium ad began on January 1, 2001.
Is the year 2000 a millennium?
The first 2000 years end with the year 2000, and the next thousand start with 2001, the first year of the third millennium. So we should definitely celebrate the official calendar millennium on January 1, 2001. But there is another millennium to celebrate: the millennium of the 2000s, the years that begin with a 2.
What is more than a millennium?
Decade: Ten (10) years. Century: One hundred (100) years. Millennium: One thousand (1,000) years. Light Year: The distance light can travel in one Earth year. ( Almost 6 trillion miles)
Is 2000 in the 21st century?
The 20th Century consists of the years 1901 through 2000 and will end Dec. 31, 2000. The 21st Century will begin Jan. 1, 2001.”
Was there a year 666?
Year 666 (DCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 666 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
What happened Year 0?
Well, actually there is no year 0; the calendar goes straight from 1 BC to 1 AD, complicating the process of calculating years. Most scholars believe that Jesus was born between 6 and 4 BC (Before Christ) and that he died between 30 and 36 AD (Anno Domini, latin for “in the year of the lord”).
What is the 21st century known for?
The 21st century is the first century of the 3rd millennium. The beginning of the 21st century has been marked by the rise of a global economy and Third World consumerism, deepening global concern over terrorism and an increase in private enterprise.
Is 21st century information age?
The 21st Century spans 100 years. Currently, it encompasses the Information Age – an era marked by rapid adoption of new technologies. This Information Age is being fueled by a Knowledge Economy that values problem solving and critical thinking over the rote skills of the Industrial era.
Are we in the 20th or 21st century?
We live in the 21st Century, that is, the 2000s. Similarly when we say “20th Century,” we are referring to the 1900s. All this because, according to the calendar we use, the 1st Century included the years 1-100 (there was no year zero), and the 2nd Century, the years 101-200.

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