What's the difference between millennial and millennium?

Millennial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
  • (2) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
  • (3) In June, just as Friendship was being published in the US, a blowhard critic named Edward Champion took her to task in an 11,000-word blog post titled “Emily Gould, Literary Narcissism, and the Middling Millennials” , in which his principal beef appeared to be that Gould was a woman and not James Baldwin.
  • (4) In the UK, there are 13.8 million millennials, and a 20-year-old in Ipswich is no doubt facing vastly different issues to a 35-year-old in Glasgow, and that’s without even looking beyond the borders of the UK.
  • (5) At the same time, only half of millennials have a driver’s licence, a rite of passage for prior generations.
  • (6) Large organisations have a huge challenge in attracting the millennial generation to come and work for them.
  • (7) Is there an industry millennials are not supposedly disrupting?
  • (8) TV producers are following the migration of these "millennials" to online video.
  • (9) – video The challenge for Clinton was always going to be reconvening the broad coalition of millennials, college-educated voters and minorities that twice helped elect Obama.
  • (10) Millennials have an uphill battle in turning around the decline of labor.
  • (11) Nick-naming women 'Beyoncé voters' is exactly why we don't vote Republican | Jessica Valenti Read more Not only are baby boomers now outnumbered by millennials – but also the groups could not be more different: 66% of boomers are married, 72% are white and their income is $13,904 above the national median; over 40% of millennials are racial minorities, 60% are single and three-quarters believe America’s diversity of race, ethnicity and language makes the country stronger.
  • (12) According to Nielsen if you want to reach the millennials, you have to come to us, or other players like us."
  • (13) How Richard Spencer's home town weathered a neo-Nazi 'troll storm' Read more The Daily Stormer, which takes a millennial, meme-driven approach to racism, misogyny and virulent antisemitism, also spun-off 31 active “real-life, on-the-ground clubs” across the country, the law center analysts found.
  • (14) Millennial consumers, in particular, really value small-batch heritage spirit brands rather than big brands with a more mainstream audience.
  • (15) Generation M are the Muslim millennials, the global generation born in the past 30 years, but with a twist.
  • (16) People take naked photos of themselves for all sorts of reasons – a 2014 survey by Cosmopolitan found that 89% of millennial women have taken naked photos of themselves (and only 14% regretted it).
  • (17) Not only did the success of Girls propel Dunham to the status of poster-girl for a generation of floundering millennials, but watching back it’s easy to spot plenty of other now-familiar faces: Adam Driver, Gaby Hoffman, Desiree Akhavan and Jenny Slate to name a few.
  • (18) Young, female and determined: how millennial social entrepreneurs are changing the world Read more A case in point is the not-for-profit publisher the Big Issue , which developed a women’s subscription enterprise.
  • (19) Why are millennials not as purpose-oriented as many of us assume them to be?
  • (20) If she can do so, at least two cohorts – millennials and women – could hold the key in pushing her over into the White House, so long as such voters are convinced her new campaign has fresh ideas and is not simply a reboot.

Millennium


Definition:

  • (n.) A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
  • (2) "Unless and until vulnerabilities are addressed effectively, and all people enjoy the opportunity to share in human development progress, development advances will be neither equitable nor sustainable," Clark said, noting that protection for vulnerable people should be included in the sustainable development goals, which will replace the millennium development goals when they expire next year.
  • (3) Litvinenko died aged 43 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at a meeting with two Russian men at the Millennium hotel in Grosvenor Square, London, in November 2006.
  • (4) According to the MDC source, whose name the Observer has redacted, "Kofi Annan, in the recent meeting in New York during the millennium summit offered Mugabe a deal to step down.
  • (5) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
  • (6) These criteria cover poverty reduction and the millennium development goals, respect for human rights, good governance, transparency and accountability.
  • (7) World leaders will assemble at the UN general assembly this month to hear Ban Ki-moon set out his vision for what should replace the millennium development goals (MDGs).
  • (8) She wrote to Moore and asked him to remove it in accordance with the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
  • (9) There was Paul Nicolaou, the head of the Liberal party fundraising arm the Millennium Forum who, the Icac was told, was getting a $5,000 a month lobbying fee.
  • (10) Two weeks before the ill-fated encounter in the Millennium hotel, the pair met Litvinenko in the Grosvenor Square office of a private security company.
  • (11) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
  • (12) Carmel McConnell, the founder and chief executive of Magic Breakfast, first got involved with the issue around the turn of the millennium, when she was visiting schools to conduct research for a book on how business could engage with local communities.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on ocean platform The busts Those accomplishments have not come without repeated failures, the most spectacular of which occurred during attempts to land their Falcon 9 rockets, named after Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon .
  • (14) The Millennium Development Goals have succeeded in bringing down the numbers of deaths of children under the age of five, but the rate of reduction of newborn deaths is about half that of the rest.
  • (15) In September 2015, UN negotiators will work towards an agreement on what will come after the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire that year.
  • (16) The Doctor Who anniversary celebrations continue for the rest of the millennium • This article was amended on 22 November 2013 to remove swearwords
  • (17) The Italian, who will hand Darren Bent and Jack Wilshere their first competitive starts at the Millennium Stadium, was quick to insist he remains the right man to coach the national team after a little over three years and 34 matches at the helm.
  • (18) Christians form about 10% of Egypt's population, and have lived largely peacefully alongside Muslims for over a millennium.
  • (19) Writing in the Observer , Rogers, whose architectural partnership designed the Millennium Dome and the National Assembly of Wales, states that the “brilliant garden bridge will enhance our public realm and reconnect the city, strengthening London’s renaissance, celebrating the river, creating an oasis of calm and beauty, and opening up new perspectives on London”.
  • (20) It met the millennium development goal of halving poverty rates by 2015 , and was hailed as a model of political stability after peaceful elections.

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