“bimillenary”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

bimillenary

释义

bimillenary|baɪˈmɪlɪnərɪ|
[f. bi- prefix² II + millenary, f. L. millēnārius containing a thousand.]
Properly (like millenary) an adj., meaning: Of or pertaining to two thousand, two thousand strong; but taken to express: A space of two thousand years (for which bimillennium or some derivative of it would be the proper term). Also, the two-thousandth anniversary of an event.
1850J. H. Newman Diffic. Anglic. 130 To testify the very truth of revelation to a fallen generation, or rather to almost a bi-millenary, which has been in unintermittent traditionary error.1961in Webster.1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xi. 192, I didn't meet the full force of his authority until the celebration of the Bimillenary of Virgil.1971Bookseller 13 Nov. 2234/3 The only country to commemorate the recent bimillenary of the death of Lucretius was the Soviet Union.1981N.Y. Times 31 Dec. a23/5 The exact date on which we should celebrate ‘the bimillenary’ (2,000th anniversary) of Virgil's death was a subject of controversy.

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