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millennial

The origin and history of millennial.

Etymology

The generational sense was coined in 1991 by American authors William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations; the older adjective sense comes from Latin mīllennium plus the suffix -al.

Origin: Latin · First attested 1991

Class of 1991

millennial first entered the language around 1991.

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