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.

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By the turn of the millennium, the US was home to 281 million people. —

Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 Feb. 2025 Turn of the millennium: Gifts turn into loans In the mid-1980s, China stopped giving pandas as gifts over concerns about its ability to maintain the wild population. —

Rachel Treisman, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025 And the time for them is right, what with the current love of all things from the turn of the millennium. —

Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 The 16 measles outbreaks documented in the U.S. in 2024 made last year one of the country’s worst for measles since the turn of the millennium. —

Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for the millennium

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