millennial

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪˈlɛn.ɪ.əl/
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• Canada, General-American: /məˈlɛn.i.əl/
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• rhymes with -ɛniəl
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH0 L EH1 N IY0 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: tisíciletý — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Finnish: tuhatvuotinen — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Finnish: tuhatvuotis- — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• French: millénaire — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Georgian: ათასწლოვანი (atasc̣lovani) — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• German: tausendjährig — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Hungarian: évezredes — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Hungarian: ezeresztendős — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Hungarian: ezeréves — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Italian: millenario — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Macedonian: илјадаго́дишен (iljadagódišen) — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Polish: tysiącletni — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Romanian: milenar — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Spanish: milenario — thousand-year-old; thousands of years old
• Catalan: mil·lenari — occurring every thousand years
• Finnish: tuhannen vuoden välein — occurring every thousand years
• French: millénaire — occurring every thousand years
• Italian: millenario — occurring every thousand years
• Macedonian: илјадаго́дишен (iljadagódišen) — occurring every thousand years
• Russian: тысячеле́тний (tysjačelétnij) — occurring every thousand years
• Spanish: milenario — occurring every thousand years
• Swedish: tusenårig — occurring every thousand years
• Finnish: vuosituhantinen — occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium
• Macedonian: миле́ниумски (miléniumski) — occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium
• Catalan: mil·lenari — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Chinese Mandarin: 一千年的 (yīqiānniánde) — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Finnish: tuhatvuotis- — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• French: millénaire — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Italian: millenario — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Macedonian: илјадаго́дишен (iljadagódišen) — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Macedonian: илјада́летен (iljadáleten) — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Portuguese: milenar — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Russian: тысячеле́тний (tysjačelétnij) — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Spanish: milenario — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Swedish: tusenårig — referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening
• Finnish: millenniaali- — of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Central Bikol: milenyal — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Catalan: mil·lennista — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Czech: mileniál — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Dutch: millennial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Finnish: millenniaali — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• French: millénial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• French: millénarial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• German: Millennial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Greek: παιδί της χιλιετίας (paidí tis chilietías) — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Indonesian: milenial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Italian: millennial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Japanese: ミレニアル (mireniaru) — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Malay: milenial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Slovak: mileniál — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Slovak: milenián — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Spanish: millennial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Spanish: milenial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Spanish: milénico — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Spanish: milénica — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Spanish: milenita — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Spanish: milénial — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century
• Tagalog: milenyal — person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century