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Spell Bee Word: Millennium


What does millennium mean?

Word: Millennium

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Millennium means a period of one thousand years. The plural is millennia.

How do you spell millennium?

Syllables: mil - len - ni - um

Tricky part: It has a double l and a double n, and students often drop one of the n's.

Watch out for: milennium, milenium, millinium

Memory tip: A thousand years is a long time, so the word is long too: two l's and two n's, one pair in each half.

Millennium in a sentence

Example 1: Parts of the Great Wall of China are more than a millennium old.

Example 2: Many people welcomed the new millennium with fireworks.

Example 3: Scientists study ice that has stayed frozen for many millennia.

Fun Fact

Strictly speaking, the third millennium began on 1 January 2001, not 2000, because the calendar has no year zero. Most people celebrated a year early anyway.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) millennium
b) generasion
c) centenery
d) calandar

Show answer

a) millennium. Centenary ends in ary, calendar has e then a, and generation ends in tion.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

mill_nn_um

a) e,e
b) a,i
c) i,i
d) e,i

Show answer

d) e,i. Mil-len-ni-um: e comes before the double n and i after it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nimulmilen

a) menial
b) minimum
c) millennium
d) millennia

Show answer

c) millennium. Two l's, two n's and two m's: only millennium uses them all, while minimum needs a third m and millennia an a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many centuries make one millennium?

a) two
b) one
c) ten
d) one hundred

Show answer

c) ten

2. Which span of time is closest to one millennium?

a) from 1925 to 2025
b) from 1825 to 2025
c) from 2015 to 2025
d) from 1025 to 2025

Show answer

d) from 1025 to 2025

Associated Words

Words that end in -ium: moratorium, emporium, premium, bacterium, symposium, compendium

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preliminary, straggle, vow, antagonism, chiropodist, definitely, excretion, horticulture

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