Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 9 compound words that contain millennium. The most common are listed below. Open millennium in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- New Millennium
- millennium bugA design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.
- Millennium DomeA large building at Greenwich in London, the largest single roofed structure in the world; now renamed "O2".
- turn of the millenniumThe cultural moment around the year 2000, specifically the late 1990s and early 2000s (1999-2001), marking the shift from the 2nd to the 3rd millennium, characterized by tech booms (e.g. dot-com), Y2K anxieties, and significant global …
- millennium eggSynonym of century egg: A Chinese delicacy made by preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing.
- Millennium Development GoalAny of a set of eight international development goals established by the United Nations in 2000, scheduled to be achieved by 2015; superseded by the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Millennium Development Goalsplural of Millennium Development Goal: Any of a set of eight international development goals established by the United Nations in 2000, scheduled to be achieved by 2015; superseded by the Sustainable Development Goals.
- light millenniumA unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one millennium.
- millennium eggsplural of millennium egg: A Chinese delicacy made by preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing.
- yester-millenniumFrom a millennium ago; from a previous millennium.
Compound words 9
- millennialThousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.
- millenniarySynonym 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.
- postmillenniumAfter the turn of the millennium.
- megamillenniumA period of time consisting of a million years.
- millenniumlongLasting several or many millennia.
- decamillenniumA period of time consisting of ten thousand years.
- millionenniumSynonym of mega-annum: a period of time consisting of one million years.
- centimillenniumA period of time consisting of one hundred thousand years.
- decimillenniumAlternative form of decamillennium: A period of time consisting of ten thousand years.