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

• millenaries
  plural

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

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• millenaries
  plural

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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

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Example Sentences

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millenary millenaries

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

Least of all is any mysterious virtue to be attached to the millenary date with which I begin.

From The Ancient East by D. G. (David George) Hogarth

Yes, in distant centuries or millenaries man will be a Cyclops, a Polyphemus, a being with one eye only.

From Time Magazine Archive

For here, in reckoning time, we must not count by centuries but millenaries.

From The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries by Stephen Salisbury

Over every ten millenaries he placed one general; and over an army of several bodies of ten thousand men, two or three dukes, one of whom had the superior command.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

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