millennial

millennial

English

Alternative forms

• Millennial

Etymology

millennium +‎ -al; surface analysis milli- +‎ -ennial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈlɛni.əl/

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Adjective

millennial (not comparable)

1. Referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening.

   millennial fair

2. Occurring every thousand years.
3. Occurring at, or relating to, the end or beginning of a millennium.
   • 2001 October 12, Stephen Holden, “Surreal Adventures Somewhere Near the Land of Nod”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     But I would urge you to resist the temptation to swoon into “Waking Life” as though it were a dizzy millennial throwback to a 60's trip movie.

   • 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in New York Times‎:

     As for Mr. Pynchon’s conjuring of millennial New York, it’s a total mishmash.

4. Of or relating to people born in the last two decades of the 20th century.

   the millennial generation

   He was suffering from a typical millennial problem: Which is the correct emoji to use?

   • 1991, William Strauss; Neil Howe, Generations, Quill, →ISBN, page 352:

     Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.

   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.

5. (Christianity) Referring to the millennium, the period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth.

   the millennial judgment

Derived terms

• postmillennial
• premillennial

Related terms

• bimillennial
• decamillennial
• millennium
• quadrimillennial
• trimillennial

Translations

referring to a 1000th anniversary

Catalan: mil·lenari (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 一千年的 French: millénaire (fr) m or f Italian: millenario (it) m Russian: тысячеле́тний (ru) (tysjačelétnij) Spanish: milenario Swedish: tusenårig (sv)

occurring every 1000 years

Catalan: mil·lenari (ca) m French: millénaire (fr) m or f Italian: millenario (it) m Russian: тысячеле́тний (ru) (tysjačelétnij) Spanish: milenario Swedish: tusenårig (sv)

referring to the millennium

Indonesian: milenial Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: тысячеле́тний (ru) (tysjačelétnij) Volapük: milyelik (vo)

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Hungarian: (please verify) ezeréves (hu) Latin: (please verify) millennialis

Noun

millennial (plural millennials)

1. (demographics, often capitalized) A person from the generation born from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s; individuals who reached adulthood early in the 3rd millennium, CE[1]
   • 2020 June 25, Eve Peyser, “In Vintage TV Ads, a Curious Fountain of Hope (and Cheese)”, in New York Times‎:

     In a bumper for a newsmagazine program, a reporter muses: “[It’s]^[sic] the year of the yuppie, but what is a yuppie?” That’s right, fellow millennials: Not long ago, young people had so much economic opportunity that their generation was defined by its upward mobility.

Derived terms

• xennial

Translations

member of the millennial generation

Catalan: mil·lennista (ca) m or f Dutch: millennial (nl) French: millénial (fr) m Greek: παιδί της χιλιετίας m or f or n (paidí tis chilietías) Indonesian: milenial Italian: millennial (it) Spanish: milénico m, millennial m or f

See also

Timeline of generations

See also

• Thesaurus:frequency

References

1. Michael Dimock (17 January 2019), “Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins”, in Pew Research Center‎, archived from the original on 2020-06-01.

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Spanish

Noun

millennial m or f (plural millennials)

1. millennial