the millennium

noun

: the beginning of the third period of a thousand years counted from the beginning of the Christian era : the year 2000

We had a party to celebrate the millennium.

Examples of the millennium in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Expectations for a series of cuts to rates by the Fed have been one of the main reasons the S&P 500 has set an all-time high 57 times this year and is heading for one of its best years of the millennium. —Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024

Part of the dot-com boom at the turn of the millennium, MicroStrategy shifted its focus beginning in 2020 from its software business to becoming the most prominent voice advocating for bitcoin as a long-term store of value akin to gold. —Derek Saul, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024

Since the turn of the millennium, the United States has been ravaged by an opioid epidemic that has killed nearly one million Americans. —Raja Krishnamoorthi, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2024

The Standard & Poor’s 500 climbed 0.6% to add to what’s set to be one of its best years of the millennium. —Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024