millénaire
French, noun/mi.le.nɛʁ/
millénaire is spelled M-I-L-L-É-N-A-I-R-E (10 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written French, the 11,928th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Millénaire is a French masculine noun meaning “millennium (thousand years)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dix siècles ou mille ans”.
What does millénaire mean in English?
adjective
- 1
millennial, one thousand years old
noun
- 1
masculinemillennium (thousand years)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui contient mille unités. 2. Qui a mille ans et plus.
noun: 1. Dix siècles ou mille ans. 2. Millième anniversaire. 3. Ceux qui croyaient que Jésus-Christ régnerait sur la terre avec ses saints, dans une nouvelle Jérusalem, pendant mille ans avant le jour du jugement dernier.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of millénaire
- millénaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce millénaire?
- /mi.le.nɛʁ/
- \mi.le.nɛʁ\
- [mi.le.nɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to millénaire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is millénaire in French?
millénaire appears 4.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).