Millenniumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• millenium (archaic)

語源

From Late Latin mīllennium, from Latin mīllennis (“1000-year”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).

発音

• IPA: /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/

名詞

millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)

1. (countable) A period of time consisting of one thousand years.

   Synonyms: chiliad, kiloannum, ka, kiloyear, kyr, yearthousand

   Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium

   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 23:

     But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.

   • 2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change‎, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:

     The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia.

   • 2013 March 24, Dan Pearson, “Magnolia magic: how to grow our favourite flowering tree”, in The Guardian‎:

     Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.

   • 2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 March 2025:

     After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.

2. (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).

   usher in the millennium

   The Nazis' concept for the so-called Thousand-Year Reich of their infallible Leader has been described as but a pale pseudoreligious false-prophet imitation of the Christian concept of the millennium of Christ regnant.

   • 1888, C. I. Scofield, “The Seven Dispensations”, in Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth (2 Tim. 2:15): Ten Outline Studies of The More Important Divisions of Scripture‎, Second edition (Religion), Philadelphia, Penn.: Philadelphia School of the Bible, published 1923, →OCLC, page 25:

     After the purifying judgments which attended the personal return of Christ to the Earth, He will reign over restored Israel and over the earth for one thousand years. This is the period commonly called the Millennium. The seat of His power will be Jerusalem, and the saints, including the saved of the Dispensation of Grace, viz., the Church, will be associated with Him in His glory.

   • 1911, Saki, “Tobermory”, in The Chronicles of Clovis:

     An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium, and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.

   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 137:

     the end of the world would be heralded by a series of spectacular and symbolic events […]. According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.

   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 117:

     Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium, when the end of the world was forecast.

3. (archaic) A long era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity.

   Near-synonym: utopia

   usher in the millennium

   • 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 375:

     But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium.

   • 1930, Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC:

     When rumour got afoot that in future mechanical power would be unlimited, the people expected a millennium.

4. (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

   A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.

等位語

派生語

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [miːlˈlɛn.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [milˈlɛn.ni.um]

名詞

mīllennium n (genitive mīllenniī or mīllennī); second declension

1. millennium

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).