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==English==

====Noun====
{{en-noun|millennia|pl2=millenniums}}

# A [[period]] of [[time]] consisting of one thousand [[year]]s.
# {{Christianity}} The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to some interpretations of Revelation 20:1-5).
# A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a [[utopia]].
#* '''1902''', William James, ''The Varieties of Religious Experience'', Folio Society 2008, p. 318:
#*: But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that sucha  state of things as we now live in is the '''millennium'''.
# {{context|with definite article}} The year 2000.

===Thesaurus===
[[Agapemone]], [[Arcadia]], [[Big Rock-Candy Mountain]], [[Canaan]], [[Cloudcuckooland]], [[Cockaigne]], [[Eden]], [[Eldorado]], [[Erewhon]], [[G]], [[Garden of Eden]], [[Goshen]], [[Happy Valley]], [[Land of Youth]], [[Laputa]], [[M]], [[Never-Never-land]], [[Neverland]], [[New Atlantis]], [[Pandemonium]], [[Quivira]], [[Saturnia regna]], [[Saturnian age]], [[Shangri-la]], [[Utopia]], [[abundant year]], [[academic year]], [[age of Aquarius]], [[annum]], [[bissextile year]], [[calendar month]], [[calendar year]], [[century]], [[chiliad]], [[chiliagon]], [[chiliahedron]], [[chiliarch]], [[chiliarchia]], [[cloudland]], [[common year]], [[day]], [[decade]], [[decennary]], [[decennium]], [[defective year]], [[dreamland]], [[dystopia]], [[era of prosperity]], [[faerie]], [[fair weather]], [[fairyland]], [[fiscal year]], [[fortnight]], [[golden age]], [[golden era]], [[golden time]], [[good times]], [[grand]], [[halcyon days]], [[heaven]], [[heyday]], [[hour]], [[kakotopia]], [[kilo]], [[kilocycle]], [[kilogram]], [[kilohertz]], [[kiloliter]], [[kilometer]], [[kingdom come]], [[lakh]], [[land of dreams]], [[land of enchantment]], [[land of faerie]], [[land of plenty]], [[land of promise]], [[leap year]], [[lotus land]], [[lunar month]], [[lunar year]], [[lunation]], [[luster]], [[lustrum]], [[man-hour]], [[microsecond]], [[millepede]], [[milligram]], [[milliliter]], [[millisecond]], [[minute]], [[moment]], [[month]], [[moon]], [[myriad]], [[one hundred thousand]], [[palmy days]], [[paradise]], [[piping times]], [[promised land]], [[prosperity]], [[quarter]], [[quinquennium]], [[regular year]], [[reign of Saturn]], [[rosy era]], [[second]], [[semester]], [[session]], [[sidereal year]], [[solar year]], [[sun]], [[sunshine]], [[ten thousand]], [[term]], [[thou]], [[thousand]], [[trimester]], [[twelvemonth]], [[utopia]], [[week]], [[weekday]], [[wonderland]], [[yard]], [[year]]

===Etymology===
From post-classical {{etyl|la}} {{term|millennium|lang=la}}, from {{etyl|la}} {{term|mille|mīlle|thousand|lang=la}} + {{term|-ennium}} (from {{term|annus||year}}).

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/}}

==Translations==
{{trans-top|thousand-year period}}
* Armenian: {{t-|hy|հազարամյակ|tr=hazaramyak}}
* [[Breton]]: [[milved]] {{m}}, -où {{p}}
* [[Catalan]]: {{t|ca|mil·lenni|m}}
* Chinese: 千年
* Czech: {{t-|cs|tisíciletí|n}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|millennium}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|jarmilo|xs=Esperanto}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vuosituhat}}
* French: {{t+|fr|millénaire|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Jahrtausend|n}}, {{t+|de|Millennium|n}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|évezred}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|árþúsund|n}}, {{t|is|þúsöld|f}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|millennio|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|千年紀|tr=sennenki}}
* Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|tūkstantmetis|m|xs=Lithuanian}}
* [[Malayalam]]: [[സഹസ്രാബ്ദം]] (sahasraabdam)
* Polish: [[tysiąclecie]], [[milenium]] {{n}}
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* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|milénio|m}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|mileniu|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|тысячелетие|n|tr=tysjačelétije}}
* Serbian: [[тисућлеће]] {{n}}, [[tisućleće]] {{n}}
* Slovak: [[tisícročie]] {{n}}, [[milénium]] {{m}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|tisočletje|n}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|milenio|m}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|mwongo|xs=Swahili}}
* Swedish: {{t|sv|årtusende}}, {{t+|sv|millennium}}
* [[Telugu]]: [[సహస్రాబ్ది]] (sahasraabdi), [[వెయ్యేళ్ళు]] (veyyaeLLu)
* Thai: {{t|th|สหัสวรรษ|tr=sahassawad}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|milenyum}}, {{t+|tr|binyıl}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|тисячеліття|n|xs=Ukrainian}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|thiên niên kỷ|xs=Vietnamese}}
* [[Volapük]]: {{t|vo|milyel}}
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{{trans-top|Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ}}
* Finnish: {{t-|fi|tuhatvuotinen valtakunta}}
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{{trans-top|period of universal happiness}}
* Finnish: {{t-|fi|tuhatvuotinen valtakunta}}
{{trans-mid}}
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{{trans-top|year 2000}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|milénium|n}}
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|millennium}}
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===Derived terms===
* [[millennial]]
* [[millennium bug]]

[[Category:English nouns with irregular plurals]]
[[Category:Time]]

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==Danish==

====Noun====
{{da-noun|stem=millennie|t|r}}

# [[millennium#English|millennium]]

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|/milɛniɔm/|[miˈlɛnˀiɔm]|lang=da}}

====Inflection====
{{da-noun-infl|stem=millennie|t|r}}

===Synonyms===
* [[årtusinde]]

===External links===
* {{pedialite|lang=da}}

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==Dutch==
{{wikipedia|lang=nl}}

====Noun====
{{nl-noun|g=n|millennia|dim=*}}

# [[#English|millennium]]

[[Category:nl:Time]]

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==German==

====Noun====
{{infl|de|noun|g=n}}

# [[millennium]] (thousand-year period)

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==Swedish==

====Noun====
{{sv-noun|g=n}}

# a [[#English|millennium]], a period of one thousand years

====Declension====
{{sv-noun-reg-r-n|2=millennie}}

===Synonyms===
* [[årtusende]]

===See also===
* [[år]]
* [[århundrade]]
* [[årtionde]]
* [[decennium]]
* [[sekel]]