centennial1
/sɛnˈtɛnɪəl
/chiefly North American
adjective
Relating to a hundredth anniversary: centennial celebrations...
- His explanation that the money saved would be budgeted towards the city's centennial celebration on New Year's didn't wash with angry citizens.
- By 1976, the year ACS celebrated its centennial anniversary, membership in the organization had grown to over 112,000 chemists, chemical engineers, and chemistry students.
- Klein announced the final $3 billion on the debt would be paid in full in time for the province's centennial celebrations next year.
noun
A hundredth anniversary: the show is a celebration of the museum’s centennial...
- CRT will develop and implement a detailed and wide-ranging plan to increase awareness of centennial events and the centennial itself, which will occur on December 17, 2003.
- One could hardly hope to commemorate Isabella Stewart Gardner and the centennial of her museum more suitably than through the remembrance of one of her most prestigious renaissance peers.
- The centennial and bicentennial of Columbus's legendary voyages passed largely unmarked in the colonies.
Origin
Late 18th century: from Latin centum 'a hundred', on the pattern of biennial.
Rhymes
Centennial2
/senˈtenēəl
/A city in north-central Colorado, governed by home rule; population 99,680 (est. 2008).
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