millenary

1. 1.

   the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

   Synonymsmillennium

   Broaderanniversary
2. 2.

   a span of 1000 years

   Synonymsmillennium

   Broadertime period

   Partscentury
3. 3.

   a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years)

   Broaderthousand

1. 1.

   of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium
2. 2.

   relating to or consisting of 1000

Other forms of millenary

plural

millenaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about millenary

What does millenary mean?

millenary means "the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in millenary?

millenary has 4 syllables: mil-le-na-ry. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for millenary?

Close synonyms include millennium, millennium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is millenary a common word?

millenary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.