centenary
noun /senˈtiːnəri/
/senˈtenəri/
(plural centenaries)
(especially British English) (North American English usually centennial)
- the 100th anniversary of an event
- The club will celebrate its centenary next year.
- the centenary year
- centenary celebrations
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + centenary/centennial- celebrate
- commemorate
- mark
- …
- celebrations
- year
Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a century): from Latin centenarius ‘containing a hundred’, based on Latin centum ‘a hundred’.