Millennial

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.

   “The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee / About his shadowy sides: above him swell / Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; […]”

2. sıfat Occurring every thousand years.
3. sıfat Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium.

   “[I]t is highly likely that some preachers may have called on millennial frettings for their purposes. The theologian Abbo of Fleury recalled a premillennial sermon in his youth which did precisely this.”

4. sıfat Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening.

   “a millennial fair”

5. sıfat 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.

   “the millennial generation”

6. sıfat 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”).

   “the millennial judgment”

7. isim 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.

   “Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.”

8. isim A thousandth anniversary; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.

   “The Magyar celebrates the millennial of Hungary, not of Austro-Hungary.”

9. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of millennial.

   “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.”

10. isim Alternative letter-case form of millennial.

    “Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.”