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tercentenary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tercentenary has 1 sense
- tercentenary(n = noun.time) tercentennial, triennial - the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it); Array is a kind of anniversary, day of remembrance
CIDE DICTIONARY
tercentenary, a. [L. ter thirce + E. centenary.].
Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tercentenary, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a three-hundredth anniversary.
2 a celebration of this.
--adj. of this anniversary.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a three-hundredth anniversary.
2 a celebration of this.
--adj. of this anniversary.
THESAURUS
tercentenary
C, anniversary, annual holiday, bicentenary, bicentennial, biennial, birthday, bissextile day, cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, century, commemoration, cwt, decennial, diamond jubilee, golden wedding anniversary, gross, hecatomb, holy days, hundred, hundredweight, immovable feast, jubilee, leap year, long hundred, name day, natal day, octennial, one C, quadrennial, quasquicentennial, quincentenary, quincentennial, quinquennial, septennial, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, sextennial, silver wedding anniversary, tercentennial, tricennial, triennial, wedding anniversary
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