millennium

Other forms of millennium

plural

millennia

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 millennium

What does millennium mean?

millennium means "a span of 1000 years". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in millennium?

millennium has 4 syllables: mil-len-ni-um. The stress falls on "len". In IPA it is /məˈlɛniəm/.

What is another word for millennium?

Close synonyms include millenary, millenary. 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 millennium a common word?

millennium is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.