millenniums
Multiple thousand-year periods
Millenniums is the plural of millennium, a period of one thousand years.
The Latin-derived plural millennia is equally common and perhaps more formal.
Both forms appear in discussions of deep time, religious prophecy, and long-term planning: civilizations that rose and fell over millenniums, millenniums of geological change.
Immense spans of time
- agesExtended time spans
- epochsDistinct historical stretches
- centuriesHundred-year periods
- erasNamed spans of history
timespans · periods · eternities · aeons · lifetimes · generations · cycles · intervals
Extended global cooling epochs
- strataParallel geological layers
- fossilsPreserved ancient organism traces
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
- carbon datingIsotope-based age measurement
prehistory · paleontology · rock layers · erosion · formation · glaciation · extinction · evolution
Extensive ruled territories
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- ancient historyStudy of earliest civilizations
- rise and fallCyclical upward-downward movement
kingdoms · pharaohs · pyramids · Mesopotamia · Bronze Age · Iron Age · classical · medieval
Study of ultimate destiny
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
second coming · judgment day · prophecy · messianic · kingdom · reign · tribulation · biblical
Calendar-rollover computer problem
- New YearJanuary first celebration
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- fireworksExplosive light displays
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
midnight · ball drop · festivities · transition · turning point · landmark · milestone · 2000
eons
Immense spans of time
eras · timespans · periods · eternities · aeons · lifetimes · generations · cycles · intervals · stretches
ice ages
Extended global cooling epochs
- strataParallel geological layers
- fossilsPreserved ancient organism traces
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
carbon dating · prehistory · paleontology · rock layers · erosion · formation · glaciation · extinction · evolution · tectonic
empires
Extensive ruled territories
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- ancient historyStudy of earliest civilizations
rise and fall · kingdoms · pharaohs · pyramids · Mesopotamia · Bronze Age · Iron Age · classical · medieval · renaissance
eschatology
Study of ultimate destiny
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
end times · second coming · judgment day · prophecy · messianic · kingdom · reign · tribulation · biblical · scripture
Y2K
Calendar-rollover computer problem
- New YearJanuary first celebration
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- fireworksExplosive light displays
celebration · midnight · ball drop · festivities · transition · turning point · landmark · milestone · 2000 · party
millenniumsmoments
Short spans of time
seconds · instants · milliseconds · nanoseconds · microseconds
- Millennium FalconCorellian freighter spacecraft
- millennium bugDate-coding flaw in software
- Millennium StadiumCardiff's national sports ground