yearthousand

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yearthousand

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From year + thousand, a calque of either Latin millennium (from mīllennis, “thousand-year”), or, more probably, of a Germanic-language term (most likely from German); compare Dutch jaarduizend, German Jahrtausend, Norwegian årtusen, Icelandic árþúsund, and Swedish årtusende, all meaning “millennium” and being composed of the cognates (sisterwords) of English year and thousand.

noun yearthousands · year-thousand · year thousand

rare millennium (a thousand-year timespan) Because, according to the peculiar chronology of the oriental Jews, the sixth millenium or year-thousand after the creation expired in 1810.

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@misc{yearthousand_2026,
  title = {yearthousand},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yearthousand},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}