millennial
ஆயிரம் ஆண்டுகளுக்கு
definition
noun
the industry brims with theories on what makes millennials tick
a person reaching young adulthood around the year 2000; a Generation Yer.
adjective
the current increase in hurricanes is only a small fluctuation within this longer millennial cycle
denoting or relating to a period of a thousand years.
the millennial anniversary of Leif Eiriksson's voyage to the New World
denoting or relating to an anniversary of a thousand years.
example
Snobby people from other countries like to make fun of the U.S. for its abbreviated history and its uncouth culture, particularly compared with the 'millennial' legacies of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Climatic cooling, whether it is on a short (decadal or century) or a long ( 'millennial' ) timescale, tends to cool the poles more than the tropics.
If for nothing else, the 'millennial' year in Britain was remarkable for an extraordinary expansion in museum construction.
The 'millennial' conversations between Mesopotamian and Greek, Islamic and European, Chinese and Western, literate and nonliterate cultures have often been complex.
Superimposed on this long-frequency / large-amplitude wavelength are smaller oscillations on 'millennial' to annual time scales.
Born from 1975 to 1980, these cuspers possess an interesting mix of generation X skepticism and 'millennial' optimism.
Chester is a town with significant histories stretching from Roman times, through medieval England, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and now these 'millennial' times.
This project, contextual and pragmatic, could have been the best of a bunch of major 'millennial' monuments in a deconstructivist style.
This ageless question is at the heart of Harold's investigation of the unique capacity of organisms "to reproduce themselves indefinitely, and arise on a 'millennial' time-scale by the interplay of variation and selection that underlies biological evolution."
Located in the dusty backwater of Datong, a provincial city in northeast China, the movie depicts a global village in the throes of 'millennial' malaise.
And now, in two parts, to coincide with the 'millennial' seasons 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, comes Arthur.
As a director, his feature debut Last Night was probably the best film version of 'millennial' angst.
In the sixteenth century, Western mathematics emerged swiftly from a 'millennial' decline.
Less than a decade later, Martin Luther began the Reformation, and religious wars dragged Europe down to a 'millennial' low.
Of all the 'millennial' projects, the extension of the London Underground, under the direction of Roland Paoletti, is one of the most admirable.
Carey created the work, she says, as a 'millennial' lament and as a grieving piece for her deceased mother, brother and father.
A higher proportion of 'millennial' adults (those 26 years of age and younger) have become core wine drinkers, more than Generation X.
I have not seen the film, but I understand that it has become a cult favorite among those who respond to 'millennial' nostalgia.
Drilling at Vostok in Antarctica has produced an outstanding record of climate and atmospheric composition on 'millennial' to centennial time scales for the last 420,000 years (Figs. 1,7).
Speakers and participants in the session discussed generational differences between the 'millennial' generation—beginning with people born in 1980—now hitting the workplace and workers of earlier generations.
Consequently, brachiopod diversity, shell morphometrics, and geochemical signatures extracted from shell beds may represent records averaged over centennial to 'millennial' timescales.
But I hear this sentiment more and more from the 'Millennials' and from older people, too.
Boomers are more process oriented while Xers and 'Millennials' are known to be questioning generations.
Pushed to describe what general movement he witnesses among 'Millennial' drinkers, Jacobus says, "The current generation are definitely drinking differently."
So while low-carb beers are helping to shape the svelte images of protein-munching youth, there is another type of beer that is appealing to a 'Millennial' subset, especially in the hip bars of urban city centers.
In 1991, we forecast the emergence of a new generation of American youth, born after 1982, whom we then named the 'Millennial' Generation.
Another distinguishing feature of 'Millennials' is that they come to college from a lifestyle that was highly scheduled.
Those were my two main criteria when I set about making up a list of writers to invite to Nashville to participate in A 'Millennial' Gathering of the Writers of the New South in April of 2000.
The industry brims with theories on what makes 'millennials' tick.
'Millennial' young adults will vote more heavily, and be far more engaged in mainstream politics, than Gen Xers were at that age.
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