millennial

[mil-len-ee-uhl] Origin

mil·len·ni·al

[mil-len-ee-uhl]
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to a millennium or the millennium.
2.
worthy or suggestive of the millennium.
noun
3.
(usually initial capital letter) Informal. a person born in the 1980s or 1990s, especially in the U.S.; a member of Generation Y: Millennials are facing a deep economic crisis.

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Millennial is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1655–65; millenni(um) + -al1

mil·len·ni·al·ly, adverb
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millennium (mɪˈlɛnɪəm)
 
n , pl -nia, -niums
1.  Christianity the millennium the period of a thousand years of Christ's awaited reign upon earth
2.  a period or cycle of one thousand years
3.  a time of peace and happiness, esp in the distant future
4.  a thousandth anniversary
 
[C17: from New Latin, from Latin mille thousand + annus year; for form, compare quadrennium]
 
mil'lennial
 
adj
 
mil'lennialist
 
n
 
mil'lennially
 
adv

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Main Entry:  millennial
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  See millennial generation
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millennial
1660s, from stem of millennium + -al.
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