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单词 sesquicentennial
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Definition of sesquicentennial in English:

sesquicentennial

adjective ˌsɛskwɪsɛnˈtɛnɪəlˌseskwəsenˈtenēəl
  • Relating to a sesquicentenary.

    as the town's sesquicentennial celebrations get under way
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Renovation and redecoration of church property was followed by an elaborate sesquicentennial celebration.
    • Thus it was that I wound up postponing my degree and staying a fifth year to edit the sesquicentennial edition of the university's yearbook.
    • Official sesquicentennial celebrations marked 26 January 1938, but Aboriginal people protested with a Day of Mourning to mark the beginning of the invasion of their people.
    • Now the town council wants Corky to write and direct a musical based on the town's 150-year history for the upcoming sesquicentennial celebration.
    • When Harper's Magazine was looking for somebody to put on the cover of their sesquicentennial issue alongside Mark Twain, there was you.
    • They and their contributions are only mentioned anecdotally, if at all, in the centennial, sesquicentennial, and bicentennial celebrations of the villages and towns along the Southern Tier.
    • I first met Holliday when he spoke at a symposium hosted by the Oakland Museum during California's sesquicentennial anniversary of the discovery of gold in California.
    • The University of Michigan Medical School this year celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary.
    • As a sidelight, Sir John Maddox gave a lecture tour of New Zealand in its sesquicentennial year 1990.
    • But in this sesquicentennial year of Uncle Tom, scholars are working hard to clarify the public's understanding of this controversial figure.
    • The sesquicentennial celebration will last through May 2004 and will encompass a variety of special events involving those affiliated with the university, as well as its surrounding community.
    • On November 26, 1950, First Baptist Church staged an elaborate sesquicentennial celebration.
    • In his sesquicentennial history of the SBC, Jesse Fletcher pointed out correctly that neither Barnes, Baker, nor McBeth had mentioned this document in their histories.
    • Ten years ago I was asked by the Eastern Health Board to write a short history of St. Vincent s Hospital which later appeared in booklet form as part of the sesquicentennial celebration of the former workhouse.
noun ˌsɛskwɪsɛnˈtɛnɪəlˌseskwəsenˈtenēəl
  • A sesquicentenary.

    the Texas Sesquicentennial was just two years away
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sesquicentennial of the Great Famine also took on special importance on account of the contemporary political contexts in which it occurred.
    • As you say, it should even be possible to get it all done for the sesquicentennial, in 2017, if we begin planning now.
    • As an added bonus, we can have the sesquicentennial again and do it properly this time.
    • Philadelphia's 1926 effort to mark the nation's sesquicentennial with a world's fair was an aesthetic and commercial disappointment.
    • In 2007, Upper Iowa University will celebrate its sesquicentennial.
    • Without doubt they will respond again to the call to celebrate the sesquicentennial on 16 December 2000.
    • He performed at Harold Washington's mayoral inauguration in 1987, at Washington's funeral, and at Chicago's sesquicentennial.
    • That the sesquicentennial of the potato famine would be the occasion for a reassertion of Irish consciousness is not surprising.
 
 

Definition of sesquicentennial in US English:

sesquicentennial

adjectiveˌseskwəsenˈtenēəl
  • Relating to the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of a significant event.

    as the town's sesquicentennial celebrations get under way
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I first met Holliday when he spoke at a symposium hosted by the Oakland Museum during California's sesquicentennial anniversary of the discovery of gold in California.
    • The University of Michigan Medical School this year celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary.
    • Renovation and redecoration of church property was followed by an elaborate sesquicentennial celebration.
    • On November 26, 1950, First Baptist Church staged an elaborate sesquicentennial celebration.
    • When Harper's Magazine was looking for somebody to put on the cover of their sesquicentennial issue alongside Mark Twain, there was you.
    • They and their contributions are only mentioned anecdotally, if at all, in the centennial, sesquicentennial, and bicentennial celebrations of the villages and towns along the Southern Tier.
    • But in this sesquicentennial year of Uncle Tom, scholars are working hard to clarify the public's understanding of this controversial figure.
    • As a sidelight, Sir John Maddox gave a lecture tour of New Zealand in its sesquicentennial year 1990.
    • Official sesquicentennial celebrations marked 26 January 1938, but Aboriginal people protested with a Day of Mourning to mark the beginning of the invasion of their people.
    • Ten years ago I was asked by the Eastern Health Board to write a short history of St. Vincent s Hospital which later appeared in booklet form as part of the sesquicentennial celebration of the former workhouse.
    • Thus it was that I wound up postponing my degree and staying a fifth year to edit the sesquicentennial edition of the university's yearbook.
    • The sesquicentennial celebration will last through May 2004 and will encompass a variety of special events involving those affiliated with the university, as well as its surrounding community.
    • Now the town council wants Corky to write and direct a musical based on the town's 150-year history for the upcoming sesquicentennial celebration.
    • In his sesquicentennial history of the SBC, Jesse Fletcher pointed out correctly that neither Barnes, Baker, nor McBeth had mentioned this document in their histories.
nounˌseskwəsenˈtenēəl
  • A one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary.

    the Texas Sesquicentennial was just two years away
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That the sesquicentennial of the potato famine would be the occasion for a reassertion of Irish consciousness is not surprising.
    • He performed at Harold Washington's mayoral inauguration in 1987, at Washington's funeral, and at Chicago's sesquicentennial.
    • The sesquicentennial of the Great Famine also took on special importance on account of the contemporary political contexts in which it occurred.
    • In 2007, Upper Iowa University will celebrate its sesquicentennial.
    • As you say, it should even be possible to get it all done for the sesquicentennial, in 2017, if we begin planning now.
    • As an added bonus, we can have the sesquicentennial again and do it properly this time.
    • Philadelphia's 1926 effort to mark the nation's sesquicentennial with a world's fair was an aesthetic and commercial disappointment.
    • Without doubt they will respond again to the call to celebrate the sesquicentennial on 16 December 2000.
 
 
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