centennial
IPA: sɛntˈɛniʌɫ
noun
- The hundredth anniversary of an event or happening.
- A city in Colorado.
- A census-designated place in Wyoming.
adjective
- Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before.
- Happening once in a hundred years.
- Lasting or aged a hundred years.
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Examples of "centennial" in Sentences
- The college is a member of the Centennial Conference.
- Mask and wig celebrates the centennial of the clubhouse.
- It was made in the proximity of the Argentina Centennial.
- It is within the grounds of the Centennial Botanical Garden.
- The Centennial Cup was the forerunner to the Royal Bank Cup.
- The Fair celebrated the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase.
- He became known as the Centennial and Millennial Chief Justice.
- The standard obverse was the official emblem of the Oregon Centennial.
- He was the author of 'Souvenir of the Sherburne Centennial Celebration'.
- A centennial is a special celebration for any city, and Pharr is no exception.
- He received the Commemorative Medal for the Centennial of Saskatchewan in 2005.
- The centennial is sad for another reason, entirely separate from his biography.
- ** I know for a fact that several members of THS were deeply involved in centennial celebration activities.
- I'm doing a book on my grandmother, a biography of my grandmother for her centennial, which is coming up in November of 1996.
- The HS suggests that the climate lacks long term centennial to millenial variability until it is perturbed by a rise in atmospheric CO2.
- And it's one of the songs that my guest, Michael Feinstein, has chosen to play in celebration of Frank Loesser's centennial, which is today.
- I recollect one year way back yonder we had what they called a centennial snow -- that was the biggest snow that's ever been and the best crop year I ever knowed.
- As you'd expect, his centennial is the occasion for festschrifts, festivals ( "Beckett festival" no longer sounds oxymoronic) and reminscences from friends and acquaintances who hadn't already weighed in, and from some who had.
- And yet Orwell's centennial is also a bit sad, given how he went out: on the brink of international renown for 1984, the physically exhausting writing of which -- on the bleak Isle of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides -- hastened his death.
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