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Definition of "millenarian" [mil•le•na•ri•an]

  • Of or relating to a thousand, especially to a thousand years. (adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or believing in the doctrine of the millennium. (adjective)
  • One who believes the millennium will occur. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "millenarian" in a sentence
  • "These are the narratives of what anthropologists call millenarian movements -- cargo cults in Melanesia, or the American Indian Ghost Dances of the 19th century."
  • "That resistance, conventionally called millenarian, is in fact sacramental."
  • "At worst, he is fueled by some kind of millenarian impulse, determined to go down in flames and to take his people with him as some kind of last stand against the long-dead scourge of colonialism."
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