Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of millennium
nounmillennia (plural millennia or millennias)
plural millennias
- nonstandarda single period of 1000 years, a millennium
In ancient Egypt, at the turn of the first millennia, animal mummies were produced in vast numbers as offerings to the pantheon of gods.
2015 September 30, Lidija McKnight, “The crocodile with eight heads”, in The Guardian, retrieved 15 Aug 20241 more example
Could its existence mean the ancient Greeks knew the Earth moved round the Sun more than a millennia before Copernicus brought it to the world in the sixteenth century?
2006, “Unearthing Mysteries”, in Radio 4, retrieved 15 Aug 2024
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