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# millennial

noun (a millennial, millennials); adjective (millennial)

«millennial» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (noun) A person born roughly between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, who became an adult around the year 2000; also called Generation Y. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#m1)
2. (adjective) To do with a millennium (a thousand years) or the year 2000: «millennial celebrations». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#m2)
3. (adjective) To do with millennials: «millennial habits». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and the news, «millennials» are a generation, like Gen Z (born about 1997–2012) and Gen Alpha (born from about 2010 on). Many parents of today's children are millennials. Jokes and slang talk about millennial habits (avocado toast, side-parted hair). In history, «millennial» refers to the year 2000 or the passing of a thousand years. Phrases: «millennial generation», «a millennial parent».

### Examples

- My mum is a millennial, born in 1988. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#x1)
- Millennials grew up as the internet arrived. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#x2)
- There were millennial celebrations all over the world on 1 January 2000. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#x3)
- My cousin calls Dad's jokes «so millennial». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#x4)
- Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha are different generations. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#x5)
- Some millennials remember dial-up internet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#x6)
- The town planted a millennial oak tree in 2000. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#x7)
- The castle has stood for a millennial span – a whole thousand years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/#x8)

### Note

Countable as a noun: one millennial, two millennials. Spelling: double l, double n: m-i-l-l-e-n-n-i-a-l. Related: millennium (1,000 years, plural millennia). Generation years are rough, not exact rules. In maths: «milli-»/«mille» link to 1,000 (a millennium is 1,000 years, a century 100).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «millennial» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/millennial/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«millennial» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/millennial.html) on Mova free.