Words / C1

mi-LEN-ee-uh-l/mɪˈleniəl/

Millennial means relating to a thousand-year period; also a person born in the 1980s–1990s (noun): millennial copy, a millennial cohort. Million and generation (already in the dictionary) are everyday; jacket tone is comms, not a codebook line.

Meaning

Relating to a thousand-year period; also a person born in the 1980s–1990s (noun; from million and generation, already in the dictionary).

Examples

• “Millennial copy on the jacket is comms, not a codebook line.”
• “Generational is the people twin. Million is already in this course. A jacket is branding. A named slice is methods. Write the frame; then keep the jacket if the ethics minute still allows the cut.”

Good to know

Of a millennium; also that generation. Everyday: generational. Jacket copy ≠ a codebook line.

Near in meaning

generational, thousand-year, epochal

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