Friday word: Millennium

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Per our esteemed mod prettygoodword's request, a chronological term :)
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Millennium (n):

plural -nia or mil·len·niums

1a : the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 during which holiness is to prevail and Christ is to reign on earth

  b : a period of great happiness or human perfection

2a : a period of 1000 years; especially : one reckoned from the beginning of the Christian era <at the start of the third millennium>

  b : a 1000th anniversary or its celebration

Etymology:

New Latin, from Latin mille thousand + New Latin -ennium (as in biennium)

First Known Use: circa 1638

Example:

ANY MILLENNIUMS TODAY, LADY?
(by Ogden Nash)

As I was wandering down the street
With nothing in my head,
A sign in a window spoke to me
And this is what it said:

"Are your pillows a pain in the neck?
Are they lumpy, hard, or torn?
Are they full of old influenza germs?
Are the feathers thin and forlorn?

( Bring 'em to us, we do the trick... )