- plural of millennium.
millennia
Example Sentences
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Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
This fossilised hunk of whale bone has lain hidden in the earth on Portmuck Beach for possibly millennia.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Kings, presidents and military academies have wrestled with versions of that question for millennia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
"We see continuity here," explains Frank Maixner, director of the Institute for Mummy Studies at Eurac Research: "These yeasts have accompanied Ötzi on his long journey through the millennia."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Stated so baldly, this notion—that the indigenous peoples of the Americas floated changelessly through the millennia until 1492—may seem ludicrous.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
