millenary
Americanadjective
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consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.
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pertaining to the millennium.
noun
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a sum or aggregate of one thousand, esp one thousand years
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another word for a millennium
adjective
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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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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
Yes, in distant centuries or millenaries man will be a Cyclops, a Polyphemus, a being with one eye only.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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 Salisbury, Stephen
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