millennial

Meanings

Adjective

• Referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening.
• Occurring every thousand years.
• Occurring at, or relating to, the end or beginning of a millennium.
• Of or relating to people born in the last two decades of the 20th century.
• Referring to the millennium, the period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth.

Noun

• A demographic term for a person from the generation born from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s; individuals who reached adulthood early in the 3rd millennium,

Origin

• millennium + -al; surface analysis milli- + -ennial.