Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tercentenary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary.
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- noun
tercentenary
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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If any one work kickstarted the Handel opera revival in this country, it was Xerxes, directed by Nicholas Hytner at ENO in1985 to mark the composer's tricentenary.
Xerxes 2010
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We mentioned the problems of disarmament and nonproliferation, and we adopted a joint declaration which seeks to take into account the follow-on of the decisions taken in Kananaskis involving global partnership, and we also mentioned the problem of our common participation after the tricentenary of St. Petersburg, and because we -- we mentioned what the G-8 are doing about that.
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On Saturday, even greater numbers of Muslims marched through the streets of Cape Town in commemoration of the tricentenary, and gathered in the Good Hope Centre.
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