millenary

American  

[mil-uh-ner-ee] / ˈmɪl əˌnɛr i /

adjective

1. consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.

2. pertaining to the millennium.

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noun

plural

millenaries

1. an aggregate of a thousand.

2. millennium.

3. millenarian.

millenary British  

/ mɪˈlɛnərɪ /

noun

1. a sum or aggregate of one thousand, esp one thousand years

2. another word for a millennium

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adjective

1. another word for millenarian

Etymology

Origin of millenary

1540–50; < Late Latin millēnārius consisting of a thousand, equivalent to millēn ( ī ) a thousand each ( Latin mill ( e ) thousand + -ēnī distributive suffix) + -ārius -ary

Example Sentences

Digging down through Rome’s millenary history, archaeologists and historians collected plenty of information and data to crunch.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023

It is proud of its pre-Hispanic millenary history, yet still unable to reconcile with it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2021

Over the years, they continued buying property, largely from absent landowners, developing the more than 700,000-acre Pumalín Park, made mostly of temperate rain forests including the millenary alerce tree, a relative of the California redwood.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2018

"That the fighting is now destroying cultural heritage that bears witness to the country's millenary history - valued and admired the world over - makes it even more tragic."

From Reuters • Oct. 1, 2012

It may sound like a paradox, but it is a fact that the whole of the first millenary was inwardly irreligious; it concealed its want of metaphysical intuition behind the falsification of historical events.

From The Evolution of Love by Schleussner, Ellie