千年 — meaning in English
qiān nián
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English meaning
- millennial noun A person born roughly between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, who came of age around the year 2000.
- millennium noun A period of one thousand years.
Senses
千年 is used for these senses in English:
- millennial Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.
- millennium (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
millennial — full definition
- noun A person born roughly between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, who came of age around the year 2000.
- adj Relating to a period of a thousand years, or to the year 2000 specifically.
millennium — full definition
- noun A period of one thousand years.
- noun The point at which one thousand-year period ends and the next begins, especially the year 2000.