Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Once in every hundred years: as, to celebrate an event centennially.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Once in a hundred years.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb As part of a
centennial .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb every hundred years; once in a century
Etymologies
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centennial + -ly
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Examples
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The actor and magician Steve Cuiffo plans to re-create the evening at St. Ann's Warehouse, in Brooklyn, this February 4th and, somewhat less hemi-centennially, February 5th.
The New Yorker Tad Friend 2011
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"KTXT has been around for those 47 years of Lubbock centennially.
Daily Toreador 2009
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