millennial
a. 一千年的, 千福年的
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教材释义与例句
一千年的；千禧年的
释义与例句
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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.
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A thousandth anniversary; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.
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Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.
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Occurring every thousand years.
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Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium.
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Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening.
一千年的
a millennial fair
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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.
引申义the millennial generation
He was suffering from a typical millennial problem: Which is the correct emoji to use?
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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”).
宗教the millennial judgment
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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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