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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Darren McCarty knows better than anybody how intense the Detroit Red Wings’ rivalry was with the Colorado Avalanche at the turn of the millennium.
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Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Three national titles and five Final Fours since 2000 also put the Gators in the conversation of the best basketball programs of the millennium.
—Wesley Alden, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
Here’s the box-score line of the millennium: 22 runs … on nine hits … thanks to 22 walks … and three wild pitches … and three hit-by-pitch debacles … plus two pitch-timer violations … and one E-1 (on a wild throw by the pitcher).
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The release date here does include the turn of the millennium.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
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Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Three national titles and five Final Fours since 2000 also put the Gators in the conversation of the best basketball programs of the millennium.
—Wesley Alden, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
Here’s the box-score line of the millennium: 22 runs … on nine hits … thanks to 22 walks … and three wild pitches … and three hit-by-pitch debacles … plus two pitch-timer violations … and one E-1 (on a wild throw by the pitcher).
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The release date here does include the turn of the millennium.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the millennium
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“The millennium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20millennium. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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