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tuhatvuotisjuhla
tuhat vuotta
tuhatvuotinen valtakunta
A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
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puhekieltä The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
(quote-book)|chapter=Tobermory|title=The Chronicles of Clovis|passage=An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium, and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.
(quote-book)|title=Religion and the Decline of Magic|publisher=Folio Society|year_published=2012|page=137|passage=the end of the world would be heralded by a series of spectacular and symbolic events …. According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.
(quote-book)|title=Vanished Kingdoms|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2012|page=117|passage=Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium, when the end of the world was forecast.
A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
(quote-book)|title=The Varieties of Religious Experience|publisher=Folio Society|year_published=2008|page=318|passage=But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium.
puhekieltä The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
millenniumEnglish millennium
English millennium
a English millennium, a period of one thousand years
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