MILLENNIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millennial mean? 

• MILLENNIAL (adjective)
  The adjective MILLENNIAL has 1 sense:

1. relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years

  Familiarity information: MILLENNIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLENNIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

millennial; millennian

Pertainym:

millennium (a span of 1000 years)

Derivation:

millennium (a span of 1000 years)

millennium (the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

 Context examples 

While methane and carbon dioxide emissions following thaw lead to immediate radiative warming, carbon uptake in peat-rich sediments occurs over millennial time scales.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

The research suggests that Arctic thermokarst lakes are "net climate coolers" when observed over longer, millennial, time scales.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)