postmillennial
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of postmillennial
First recorded in 1850–55; post- + millennial
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Finally, he seemed poised to capitalize on the postmillennial rush of tourists to the highest mountain on Earth — a boom there seemed no reason to doubt would continue.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2021
Before the Civil War, many evangelical Christians held a postmillennial eschatology.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2019
“Hotel Mumbai” belongs to an odd postmillennial genre: the queasy and half-cathartic thriller, based on actual outrages of recent times.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 15, 2019
But even if only apocryphal, the picture it paints of American acrimony in the postmillennial years is true beyond mere facts.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2017
The Great Recession and its aftermath are likely to make the postmillennial generation more risk-averse, he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2016
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
