millennium

Definition

A period of time consisting of one thousand years.

Etymology

From Late Latin mīllennium, from Latin mīllennis (“1000-year”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).

Example Sentences

• "But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums."
• "How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon."
• "The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia."