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MILLENARIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millenarist mean? 

MILLENARIST (noun)
  The noun MILLENARIST has 1 sense:

1. a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity)play

  Familiarity information: MILLENARIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MILLENARIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chiliast; millenarian; millenarist

Hypernyms ("millenarist" is a kind of...):

optimist (a person disposed to take a favorable view of things)

Derivation:

millenarism (belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations)


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