Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tercentenary.
- noun A tercentenary event or celebration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tercentenary .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The 300th
anniversary of an event or happening. - adjective Occurring every three-hundred (300) years.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years
Etymologies
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Examples
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Flash forward to December 2076, America's tercentennial sometimes called tricentennial year.
Washington D.C. weather in the year 2076 Don Lipman 2011
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The collection ends with mock front pages imagining the paper's distant past and future, including a news flash from its "tricentennial" year of 2056, "Grave Robbers Pry Valuable Rifle From Charlton Heston's Cold, Dead Hands."
NYT > Home Page 2009
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I see the constitution as a call to character, and would like to let it have another century of empiric effect, so we might assess its worth in 2106, sometime following the tricentennial.
Balkinization 2006
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Unfortunately, a hard copy is pretty expensive on the tricentennial store website ($40).
Missed the Ceremony...Great Poster Though johnny_mango 2005
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We actually bought something: an Albuquerque tricentennial tote bag.
Albloggerque johnny_mango 2005
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I predict New Orleans will have a triumphant tricentennial 2018, if memory serves; and I plan to celebrate it as a proud resident.
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I predict New Orleans will have a triumphant tricentennial 2018, if memory serves; and I plan to celebrate it as a proud resident.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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Good to hear about the progress--and I hope to be able to buy you a drink of your choice come the tricentennial--or even sooner.
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To top it all off, KBYU offered donors a ceramic and brass lapel pin celebrating the tricentennial in 1985, and I wore mine proudly.
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It seemed as if I was celebrating Bach's tricentennial for several years.
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