yearthousandとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

名詞

yearthousand (複数形 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^[sic] 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."