millenary

American  

[mil-uh-ner-ee] / ˈmɪl əˌnɛr i /

adjective

1. consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.

2. pertaining to the millennium.

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noun

plural

millenaries

1. an aggregate of a thousand.

2. millennium.

3. millenarian.

millenary British  

/ mɪˈlɛnərɪ /

noun

1. a sum or aggregate of one thousand, esp one thousand years

2. another word for a millennium

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adjective

1. another word for millenarian

Etymology

Origin of millenary

1540–50; < Late Latin millēnārius consisting of a thousand, equivalent to millēn ( ī ) a thousand each ( Latin mill ( e ) thousand + -ēnī distributive suffix) + -ārius -ary

Example Sentences

Digging down through Rome’s millenary history, archaeologists and historians collected plenty of information and data to crunch.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023

It is proud of its pre-Hispanic millenary history, yet still unable to reconcile with it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2021

Over the years, they continued buying property, largely from absent landowners, developing the more than 700,000-acre Pumalín Park, made mostly of temperate rain forests including the millenary alerce tree, a relative of the California redwood.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2018

"That the fighting is now destroying cultural heritage that bears witness to the country's millenary history - valued and admired the world over - makes it even more tragic."

From Reuters • Oct. 1, 2012

We determined therefore to leave them behind, under the care of two servants, till our return, and by means of presents, we prevailed on the millenary to allow us post-horses and a guide.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert