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yearthousand en · NOUN

Etymology

From year + thousand, a calque of either Latin millennium (from mīllennis, “thousand-year”), or, more probably, of a Germanic-language term (most likely from German); compare Dutch jaarduizend, German Jahrtausend, Norwegian årtusen, Icelandic árþúsund, and Swedish årtusende, all meaning “millennium” and being composed of the cognates (sisterwords) of English year and thousand.

Meanings

1. (rare) millennium (a thousand-year timespan)
   • It is probable that a hundred years hence the students of European literature will have much better means at command than ourselves, to take a comprehensive view of the literature of Europe during the earlier part of this “Yearthousand,"—to use a Germanism which is in many respects preferable to “Millennium." 1867, The English Cyclopedia
   • Because, according to the peculiar chronology of the oriental Jews, the sixth millenium or year-thousand after the creation expired in 1810. 1859, G. SEYFFARTH, A.M., PH. D., D.D., SUMMARY OF RECENT DISCOVERIES BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY
   • […] “the War (of the gods and their elder brothers, the devils) lasted thirty-two yearthousands,” xii. 33. 26. 1902, Journal of the American Oriental Society:
   • This has been into the genes through out yearthousands. It has been accepted. Women have been for trade or exchange due to sex in all times. 2014, Anne Kari B. Solstad, Off darkness...: A journey out of the landscape of depression:
   • One branch of them went north-east into North China and settled there, or stayed on in their original home in the Hwang-Ho valley, long before 2000 B.C., and there it became the ancient Chinese people, who built up a very high and original type of civilisation before 1500 B.C., which independently of any other cultures reached its highest point during the first year-thousand before Christ, and attained still further development through contact with Buddhism and Indian civilisation during the first year-thousand after Christ. 2000, August Hermann Francke, Gśam-yul Na Bśad Paʼi Ge-sar Gyi Sgruṅ Bźugs So:
   • Human history, so far as it has been written, is at best a mere fragment; for the few centuries or year-thousands of which there is definite record are as nothing compared to the millions of unnumbered years during which man has perhaps walked the earth. 1880, John Lothrop Motley, History of the United Netherlands:

Forms

Meronyms

yearhundred

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