"millenarian" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /mɪlɪˈnɛːɹɪən/ [UK] Forms: more millenarian [comparative], most millenarian [superlative]
Etymology: From Late Latin millenarius + -an. Etymology templates: {{af|en|millenarius|-an|lang1=LL.}} Late Latin millenarius + -an Head templates: {{en-adj}} millenarian (comparative more millenarian, superlative most millenarian)
  1. (Christianity) Pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth. Categories (topical): Christianity Synonyms: millennial Translations (pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth): milenial (Indonesian), тысячеле́тний (tysjačelétnij) (Russian), milyelik (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-millenarian-en-adj-zosWV1gW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 28 19 25 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 26 25 18 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 26 18 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 25 18 29 Topics: Christianity Disambiguation of 'pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth': 83 8 9
  2. Pertaining to any of various religious or social movements which believe in a coming or ongoing radical change to existing world order.
    Sense id: en-millenarian-en-adj-NYPeU9vq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 28 19 25 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 26 25 18 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 26 18 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 25 18 29
  3. Lasting or expected to last a thousand years.
    Sense id: en-millenarian-en-adj-JBvSfnoI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 28 19 25 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 26 25 18 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 26 18 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 25 18 29

Noun

IPA: /mɪlɪˈnɛːɹɪən/ [UK] Forms: millenarians [plural]
Etymology: From Late Latin millenarius + -an. Etymology templates: {{af|en|millenarius|-an|lang1=LL.}} Late Latin millenarius + -an Head templates: {{en-noun}} millenarian (plural millenarians)
  1. A person who believes in an apocalyptic millennium. Synonyms: chiliast, Adventist Derived forms: millenarianism
    Sense id: en-millenarian-en-noun-rfsHQTXC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -an, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Volapük translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 28 19 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -an: 25 24 16 35 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 26 25 18 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 26 18 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 25 18 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 23 18 14 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 22 22 17 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Volapük translations: 22 22 16 39

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.