Meanings
- pluralplural onlyThe decade from 1000 to 1009.
- pluralplural onlyThe century from 1000 to 1099.
- pluralplural onlyrareThe millennium from 1000 to 1999.
What Roman numeral might you find in the cornerstone of a building built in the year 2000? MM – the mark of the new millennium, a move from the 1000s to the 2000s.
1999, Larry Dane Brimner, The Official M&M’s Book of the Millennium, Charlesbridge, →ISBN2 more examples
The current four-phase American cycle started in the days immediately following World War II with the First Turning of the Millennial Cycle, so named because it would bridge America from one millennium (the 1000s) to the next (the 2000s).
2009, Tom Osenton, “Repeating Cycles in American History”, in Boomer Density: Leading the U.S. through the Worst Crisis Since the Great Depression, Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, “The Current American Cycle—the Millennial Cycle”, page 32Only instead of cobwebs, my distraction was thoughts about the coming new millennium—the 2000s.[…]Supported by the reappearance of the decade-number 1, during that decade, the decade just finished, we saw the waning masculine-energy of the 1000s doing all it could to hang on to its power and dominance.
2020 November, Kashonia Carnegie, “From Me2We: The Unrecognized Key to the Rise in the Status of Women and why it’s Essential that Men Know About this Too”, in Maryam Morrison, editor, The Eden Magazine, pages 19–20
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