centennial

IPA: sɛntˈɛniʌɫ

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.

Examples of "centennial" in Sentences

A centennial is a special celebration for any city, and Pharr is no exception.
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.