tricentennial
IPA: traɪsɛntˈɛniʌɫ
noun
- The 300th anniversary of an event or happening.
adjective
- Occurring every three hundred (300) years.
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Examples of "tricentennial" in Sentences
- We actually bought something: an Albuquerque tricentennial tote bag.
- It seemed as if I was celebrating Bach's tricentennial for several years.
- Unfortunately, a hard copy is pretty expensive on the tricentennial store website ($40).
- Flash forward to December 2076, America's tercentennial sometimes called tricentennial year.
- Good to hear about the progress--and I hope to be able to buy you a drink of your choice come the tricentennial--or even sooner.
- I predict New Orleans will have a triumphant tricentennial 2018, if memory serves; and I plan to celebrate it as a proud resident.
- To top it all off, KBYU offered donors a ceramic and brass lapel pin celebrating the tricentennial in 1985, and I wore mine proudly.
- I see the constitution as a call to character, and would like to let it have another century of empiric effect, so we might assess its worth in 2106, sometime following the tricentennial.
- The collection ends with mock front pages imagining the paper's distant past and future, including a news flash from its "tricentennial" year of 2056, "Grave Robbers Pry Valuable Rifle From Charlton Heston's Cold, Dead Hands."
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