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Word entry · 10 letters

millennium

Best crossword clue

"Thousand years"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/Part of speech nounSorted eiillmmnnuStarts with MEnds with M1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a span of 1000 years

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.
  • 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.

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