单词	bicentenary
释义	bicentenary noun bi·​cen·​te·​na·​ry ˌbī-(ˌ)sen-ˈte-nə-rē  (ˌ)bī-ˈsen-tᵊn-ˌer-ē, ˌbī-(ˌ)sen-ˈtē-nə-rē : bicentennial bicentenary adjective Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web During the ceremony, held on Peru's bicentenary of independence from Spain, the leftist leader vowed broad changes to fight corruption and monopolies, and to increase spending on education and health. Harold Maass, The Week, 29 July 2021 Activists and politicians in France’s formerly colonized overseas territories objected to celebrations of the bicentenary. Washington Post, 5 May 2021 In 2005 Jacques Chirac, a Gaullist predecessor at the Elysée Palace, refused—amid protests at the time—to commemorate the bicentenary of Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz. The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021 Now, ahead of the bicentenary of his death on May 5th 1821, those rival passions have been revived. The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021 This ensured that his tomb became a site of pilgrimage, where the great and the good would come to pay their respects—including the prince of Wales, who laid a wreath on Dickens’ grave in 2012, to mark the bicentenary of his birth. Leon Litvack, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020 The nursing pioneer’s original lantern is among 200 objects set to go on view at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London as part of a new exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of her birth. Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020 Founded in 2007 on the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade, the museum sits just a short walk from the dry docks where slave trading ships were repaired and fitted out in the 1700s. Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019 Literary monster: Fondation Martin Bodmer, Geneva, a library with a large collection of rare books, is this year celebrating the bicentenary of the creation of the work with an exhibition of first editions, paintings and manuscripts. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Sep. 2019 See More Word History First Known Use 1872, in the meaning defined above
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