millenary

[mil-uh-ner-ee]

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adjective

consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.
pertaining to the millennium.

noun, plural mil·le·nar·ies.

an aggregate of a thousand.
millennium.
millenarian.

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

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Related Words for millenary

millenarian, millenary, millennium, chiliad, chiliastic, millennial, millesimal

Examples from the Web for millenary

Historical Examples of millenary

At Hertford, a pageant began in commemoration of the millenary of the town.
The Annual Register 1914
Anonymous
Least of all is any mysterious virtue to be attached to the millenary date with which I begin.
The Ancient East
D. G. Hogarh
The fourth is the Jaik or Rhymnus, on each bank of which a millenary commands.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. I
Robert Kerr
Many legends illustrate the incapacity of the first millenary to realise the relationship between the sexes in any other sense.
The Evolution of Love
Emil Lucka
The Millenary Petition asked only some changes in the ritual of the Church and certain moderate reforms.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
Robert S. Rait

British Dictionary definitions for millenary

millenary

noun plural -naries

a sum or aggregate of one thousand, esp one thousand years
another word for a millennium

adjective, noun

another word for millenarian

Word Origin for millenary

C16: from Late Latin millēnārius containing a thousand, from Latin mille thousand

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Word Origin and History for millenary

adj.

"consisting of a thousand," 1570s, from Latin millenarius (see millennium).