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Webster 1913 Edition
Millennial
Mil-len′ni-al
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years;
as, a
millennial
period; millennial
happiness.Definition 2024
millennial
millennial
English
Adjective
millennial (not comparable)
- Referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening: millennial fair.
- Occurring every thousand years.
- Occurring at the end or beginning of a millennium.
- 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club:
- When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
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- (Christianity) Referring to the millennium: the millennial judgment.
Related terms
Translations
referring to a 1000th anniversary
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occurring every 1000 years
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referring to the millennium
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Noun
millennial (plural millennials)
- A person from the generation born between the 1980s and mid 1990s.
See also
- Generation Y
- Nintendo generation
- MTV generation
Translations
member of the millennial generation
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