The Collaborative International Dictionary
Millennial \Mil*len"ni*al\, a. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "pertaining to the millennium," from stem of millennium + -al (1). Meaning "pertaining to a period of 1,000 years" is from 1807. As a noun from 1896, originally "thousandth anniversary." From 1992 as a generational name for those born in the mid-1980s and thus coming of age around the year 2000.
Wiktionary
a. 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 n. A person from the generation which grew up in the 1990s and 2000s.
WordNet
adj. relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years [syn: millennian]
Wikipedia
Millennial is an online journal and blog written by Millennial Catholics offering "world-class Catholic opinion and analysis on the most pressing issues of our times in politics, religion, and culture." The authors, described as "quite an impressive group of commentators," are said to "perfectly weave together current events and the Catholic intellectual tradition" and are adept at "finding real-world practicality to Catholic theology."
Called "an online home to Catholic writers in their 20s and 30s," the site seeks to "amplify the voices of a younger generation and provide insight and analysis on the issues that matter to this generation." There is no precise definition of when the Millennial generation began, but all Millennial writers were all born during the pontificate of Saint John Paul the Great.
The blog "eschews a Catholicism forced to fit neatly into left- or right-leaning ideological camps." The writers, according to the editor, are "the most talented people who are orthodox and committed to church teaching on the sanctity of human life and social justice.”
It has been said that Millennial "perfectly represents the future of young intellectuals in the church" and Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter has encouraged his readers to "regularly consult the writings of these fine young Catholic thinkers." Articles and posts mix "intellectual rigor with crisp writing and nuanced reflection." Journal articles and blog entries from Millennial have been cited in places such as Commonweal, Religion News Service, U.S. Catholic, and elsewhere.
It was founded in 2013 by Robert Christian and Christopher Hale, two Millennial Catholics who met at Holy Trinity Church in Washington, DC. It is funded by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.
Millennial is an independently produced podcast created by Megan Tan that focuses on the transition between university and work, "how to maneuver your twenties". It explores the subject of finding meaningful and fulfilling work with the pressures of money, status and self worth. The podcast is autobiographical and includes interviews with people in Tan's life including family members, coworkers and friends. The series began in 2015 as Tan has left college and was unemployed living in her childhood home. In 2016 Millennial joined Radiotopia becoming the 14th show in the network.
Usage examples of "millennial".
I would tell them only they themselves can throw off this millennial neurosis, by thinking positively and living positively.
With a book you could have a profound effect on millennial neurosis throughout the country.
But we in the millennial neurosis situation are surrounded by perpetual, remorseless reinforcement of our grief.
Therefore millennial neurosis is not only loss of hope in the future and faith in the present, it is love of the past.
Christian, are you saying that the only certain cure for millennial neurosis is the passing of our generation?
I am not even saying that with the passing of our generation, millennial neurosis will cease.
They were, he was forced to admit, an extraordinarily diverse lot: a Balkan dictator, a Somalian warlord, a charismatic Peruvian revolutionary, an exiled Chinese superwoman, the self-proclaimed prophet of a millennial cult, and the commander of an American anti-government militia.
But then the Guamanians were more religious and more conservative, and fundamentalism, with its millennial apprehensions, had imbued these last few months with the anticipation and the dread of Judgment Day.
A gift to the god from his faithful worshippers, the ecclesiarch explained, the temple commemorated the millennial year of his arrival to liberate the mother planet from the follies of the aging Creators and the demonic malevolence of their last Creation.
She was reminded again that the passing of time for symbionts, with their millennial life spans, held much less fear than it did for shorter-lived organisms.
Millennial Fizzy with stereo headphones on, and he hurriedly puts out his cigarette when Gately enters and closes the little drawer in the bedside table where Foss keeps his ashtray just like everybody else.
The other thing I'd note is simply what the article's about, which turned out to be not so much the campaign of one impressive guy, but rather what McCain's candidacy and the brief weird excitement it generated might reveal about how millennial politics and all its packaging and marketing and strategy and media and Spin and general sepsis makes us U.
So the tenure-jockeys and critics who were hailing this millennial new Orthochromatic Neorealism thing as the real new avant-garde thing were getting tenure by blasting Dick and Godbout and the flying Snow Brothers and The Stork for trying to be avant-garde, when really they were self-consciously trying to be more like après-garde.
Cal-Irvine had earned tenure with an essay arguing that the reason-versus-no-reason debate about what was unentertaining in Himself's work illuminated the central conundra of millennial après-garde film, most of which, in the teleputer age of home-only entertainment, involved the question why so much aesthetically ambitious film was so boring and why so much shitty reductive commercial entertainment was so much fun.
He knows we live in a world that loves to think SF, and has thought SF ever since Hiroshima , which was the ne plus ultra of Millennial Technological Advents, which really and truly did change the world forever.