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millénial

French, noun/mi.le.njal/

millénial is spelled M-I-L-L-É-N-I-A-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written French, the 223,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Millénial is a French masculine noun meaning “millenial” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne de la génération jeune au moment du millénaire, née entre 1980 et 2000 environ (la période précise…”.

What does millénial mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    millenial

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemillenial

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif à une période de mille ans, à un millénium.

noun: 1. Personne de la génération jeune au moment du millénaire, née entre 1980 et 2000 environ (la période précise différant selon les sources).

noun: 1. Personne née entre le début des années 1980 et la fin des années 1990.

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 millénial

  • milléniale feminine
  • milléniaux masculine plural
  • milléniales feminine plural
  • millénials plural
  • millenial
  • millenials plural
  • milleniale feminine
  • millénial

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce millénial?

  • /mi.le.njal/
  • \mi.le.njal\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to millénial

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is millénial in French?

millénial appears about once in every 50 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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