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millennium

[mi-len-ee-uhm] / mɪˈlɛn i əm /
NOUN
1000 years
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


Example Sentences

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This ancient strain infected people across Eurasia for nearly two millennia before disappearing.

From Science Daily

The opera ends with Akhnaten’s son, presumably Tutankhamun, restoring polytheism, and then, once the staging jumps millennia into the future, it’s rediscovered by modern-day tourists.

From Los Angeles Times

After the turn of the millennium, Schofield went behind the camera as a producer for several projects.

From Los Angeles Times

At the turn of the millennium, private investments in technology soared and crashed alongside stocks, wiping out investors who jumped on the bandwagon at the wrong time.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hawthorne’s Rome is a city of artists who gather from all over the world to drink in the cultural dynamism bottled up in its millennia of great art.

From The Wall Street Journal