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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

  1. noun A person born roughly between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, who came of age around the year 2000.
  2. adj Relating to a period of a thousand years, or to the year 2000 specifically.

millennium — full definition

  1. noun A period of one thousand years.
  2. noun The point at which one thousand-year period ends and the next begins, especially the year 2000.