millennium

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A period of one thousand years.

• The new millennium began on January 1, 2001.
• This tradition has been passed down for over a millennium.
• We celebrated the turn of the millennium with fireworks.
• Historians debate whether the fall of the Western Roman Empire marked the true beginning of a new millennium in European civilization.
• The United Nations established development goals aimed at reducing global poverty by the end of the first millennium of the common era.
• Archaeological dating techniques suggest that certain Mesoamerican pyramids were constructed nearly a millennium before European contact with the Americas.

Eş anlamlılar: chiliad

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A period of great happiness, peace, or prosperity; a golden age.

• Some believe technology will usher in a new millennium of prosperity.
• The kingdom enjoyed a millennium of peace under wise rulers.

Eş anlamlılar: golden age, utopia, paradise

Zıt anlamlılar: dystopia, dark age