millennial

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /mɪˈlɛn.ɪ.əl/    美 /məˈlɛn.i.əl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Often capitalized: a person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century, from around the early 1980s to the mid-1990s and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E., characterized by their familiarity with computer technology and poorer financial prospects than their parents.
    — Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.
  2. A thousandth anniversary; also, a celebration of such an anniversary. obsolete,rare
    — The Magyar celebrates the millennial of Hungary, not of Austro-Hungary.
形容词 adj.
  1. Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old. not-comparable
    — The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee / About his shadowy sides: above him swell / Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; […]
  2. Occurring every thousand years. not-comparable
  3. Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium. not-comparable
    — [I]t is highly likely that some preachers may have called on millennial frettings for their purposes. The theologian Abbo of Fleury recalled a premillennial sermon in his youth which did precisely this.
  4. Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening. not-comparable
    — a millennial fair
  5. Often capitalized: of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s (with 1996 births cited as the last Millennial year), and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E. alt-of,broadly,capitalized,not-comparable,often
    — the millennial generation
  6. Synonym of millenarian (“pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth”). not-comparable
    — the millennial judgment

词形变化

millennials plural Millennial alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
amillennial amillennialism amillennialist antemillennial bimillennial decamillennial millennial cringe millennial gray millennial grey millennial humor millennialism millennialist millennially millennial pause millennial pink millennial whoop milliberal multimillennial postmillennial post-millennial premillennial pre-millennial quadrimillennial semimillennial submillennial trimillennial Zillennial coronial geriatric millennial xennial
相关词
millenarianism millenarism millenary millennianism millenniary millennium frequency
并列词
semiannual · annual · biennial · triennial · quadrennial · quinquennial quintennial · sextennial · septennial · octennial · novennial · decennary decennial · sesquidecennial · centennial · sesquicentennial · bicentennial · tricentennial · quadricentennial · bimillennial · trimillennial · quadrimillennial · decamillennial

词源

词源 1
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin mīllennium (“millennium”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming nouns). The English word may be analysed as millennium + -al or milli- (prefix meaning ‘thousand’) + -ennial (suffix meaning ‘years’).
Adjective sense 5 (“of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century”) was coined by the American authors William Strauss (1947–2007) and Neil Howe (born 1951) in their book Generations (1991): see the quotations.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
词源 2
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin mīllennium (“millennium”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming nouns). The English word may be analysed as millennium + -al or milli- (prefix meaning ‘thousand’) + -ennial (suffix meaning ‘years’).
Adjective sense 5 (“of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century”) was coined by the American authors William Strauss (1947–2007) and Neil Howe (born 1951) in their book Generations (1991): see the quotations.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
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