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单词 quinquenniad
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quinquenniadn.

Brit. /kwɪŋˈkwɛnɪad/, /kwɪnˈkwɛnɪad/, U.S. /kwɪŋˈkwɛniəd/, /kwɪŋˈkwɛnˌiæd/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin quīnquennis , -ad suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin quīnquennis five years old, lasting for five years, occurring every five years ( < quīnque- quinque- comb. form + annus year: see annals n.) + -ad suffix1, after decad n.
Now rare.
= quinquennium n.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years
hendecadOE
a week of yearsa1382
weekc1384
Olympiada1387
lustre1387
yearc1425
millenary1551
prenticeship1553
septenary1576
lustrum1590
quinquennal1590
seventy1590
septimane1603
quinquennie1606
threescore (years) and tena1616
duodecad1621
quinquennium1621
jubilee1643
quadrenniala1646
chiliad1653
septennary1659
septennium1660
triennial1661
millennium1664
tetraëterid1678
octennial1679
duodenary1681
quadrennium1779
septenniad1836
quinquenniad1842
milliad1843
tricentenary1846
triennium1847
vicennium1847
bimillenary1850
lustration1853
sexennium1858
septennate1874
quinquennial1877
pentad1880
sexennate1898
aeon1960
1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 162 Thro' sunny decads..Or gay quinquenniads.
1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 202 Prolonged through many decades and quinquenniads.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 185 At all ages..except in the quinquenniad ten to fourteen.
1922 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 36 250 Prices in 1860 are taken as the standard (100) because an average for the..quinquenniad preceding 1862 was not possible.
1975 World Politics 27 479 From around 1850, when some 5 or 10 INGO's were founded in each quinquenniad, the number founded rose to over 300 per quinquenniad by 1950.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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