yearthousand

English

Alternative forms

• year-thousand, year thousand

Etymology

From year +‎ thousand. Compare Dutch jaarduizend (“millennium”), German Jahrtausend (“millennium”), Norwegian årtusen (“millennium”), Icelandic árþúsund (“millennium”), Swedish årtusende (“millennium”).

Noun

yearthousand (plural yearthousands)

1. (very rare) A millennium (a period of a thousand years).
   • 1859, G. SEYFFARTH, A.M., PH. D., D.D., SUMMARY OF RECENT DISCOVERIES BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY:

     Because, according to the peculiar chronology of the oriental Jews, the sixth millenium or year-thousand after the creation expired in 1810.

   • 1867, The English Cyclopedia:

     It is probable that a hundred years hence the students of European literature will have much better means at command than ourselves, to take a comprehensive view of the literature of Europe during the earlier part of this “Yearthousand,"—to use a Germanism which is in many respects preferable to “Millennium."

   • 1880, John Lothrop Motley, History of the United Netherlands:

     Human history, so far as it has been written, is at best a mere fragment; for the few centuries or year-thousands of which there is definite record are as nothing compared to the millions of unnumbered years during which man has perhaps walked the earth.

   • 1902, Journal of the American Oriental Society:

     […] “the War (of the gods and their elder brothers, the devils) lasted thirty-two yearthousands,” xii. 33. 26.

   • 2000, August Hermann Francke, Gśam-yul Na Bśad Paʼi Ge-sar Gyi Sgruṅ Bźugs So:

     One branch of them went north-east into North China and settled there, or stayed on in their original home in the Hwang-Ho valley, long before 2000 B.C., and there it became the ancient Chinese people, who built up a very high and original type of civilisation before 1500 B.C., which independently of any other cultures reached its highest point during the first year-thousand before Christ, and attained still further development through contact with Buddhism and Indian civilisation during the first year-thousand after Christ.

   • 2014, Anne Kari B. Solstad, Off darkness...: A journey out of the landscape of depression:

     This has been into the genes through out yearthousands. It has been accepted. Women have been for trade or exchange due to sex in all times.

   Meronym: yearhundred