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What is the meaning of millenia?
a period or cycle of one thousand years.
What is longer than a millennium?
The answer is Eon. Eon often refers to a span of one billion years.
What is a skeptically?
adjective. inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say. doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I’m skeptical. showing doubt: a skeptical smile.
What do you call a group of 10000 years?
Consulting the Oxford English Dictionary, I found no word for “10,000 years” that survived into English. (Particularly NOT “myriennium” or “myriayore”: those are not in the O.E.D.) I was surprised to find the Greek “chili-” word above as the English word “chiliad.” It means “a group of 1000,” but also “1000 years.”
What is a period of a thousand years called?
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What is the biggest word for thousands of years?
The word “millenium” is the biggest I found. It appears that a modifier got stuck on the front if there was more than a thousand of anything. Something like “decei millenii” for ten millenia seems to be what they used. […] Consulting the Oxford English Dictionary, I found no word for “10,000 years” that survived into English.
What is the meaning of the Greek word for 10000 years?
The Greek word “myrioi” for 10,000 is the source of “myrietes” and “myrieteris,” which mean “a period of 10,000 years.” Similarly, there is “chilieteris,” a period of 1,000 years, which uses the “chili-” prefix that became our “kilo-.” By the way, there’s a very long word for a myriad of myriads = 10^8 in Greek.