centennial
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English
Etymology
From Late Latin centennis (“100-year”) + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
centennial (not comparable)
- Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before.
- a centennial ode
- Happening once in a hundred years.
- a centennial jubilee a centennial celebration
- Lasting or aged a hundred years.
- 1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Student’s Tale. The Falcon of Ser Federigo.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 34:
- In her grand villa, half-way up the hill, / O'erlooking Florence, but retired and still; / With iron gates, that opened through long lines / Of sacred ilex and centennial pines, […]
Synonyms
Noun
centennial (plural centennials)
- The hundredth anniversary of an event or happening.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- centennially
- multicentennial, semicentennial, quasquicentennial, sesquicentennial, bicentennial, tricentennial, quadricentennial, quincentennial, sexcentennial, septicentennial, octocentennial
Translations
100th anniversary
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See also
References
- “centennial, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2021.
