Millennial

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪˈlÉ›niÉ™l/

Origin

millennium + -al

Full definition of millennial

Adjective

1. Referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening: millennial fair.
2. Occurring every thousand years
3. Occurring at the end or beginning of a millennium
• 2012, June 26, Genevieve Koski, Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe, When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
4. (Christianity) Referring to the millennium: the millennial judgment.

Related terms

• bimillennial
• decamillennial
• millennium
• quadrimillennial
• trimillennial

Noun

1. A person from the generation which grew up in the 90's and 2000's.