centennial

See also:Centennial

English

Etymology

FromLate Latincentennis(“100-year”)+-al.

Pronunciation

• (UK,US)IPA^(key):/sɛnˈtɛnɪəl/

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Adjective

centennial(notcomparable)

1. Relating to, or associated with, thecommemorationof aneventthat happened ahundredyearsbefore.

   acentennialode

2. Happeningoncein a hundred years.

   acentennialjubilee    acentennialcelebration

3. Lasting orageda hundred years.
   • 1863November 23,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,“The Student’s Tale. The Falcon of Ser Federigo.”, inTales of a Wayside Inn,Boston, Mass.:Ticknor and Fields,→OCLC,page34:

     In her grand villa, half-way up the hill, / O'erlooking Florence, but retired and still; / With iron gates, that opened through long lines / Of sacred ilex andcentennialpines,[…]

Synonyms

• hundred-year-old,centenary

Derived terms

• demisesquicentennial
• intercentennial

Noun

centennial(pluralcentennials)

1. The hundredthanniversaryof an event or happening.

Synonyms

• centenary

Derived terms

• centennially
• multicentennial,semicentennial,quasquicentennial,sesquicentennial,bicentennial,tricentennial,quadricentennial,quincentennial,sexcentennial,septicentennial,octocentennial

Translations

100th anniversary

• Armenian:հարյուրամյակ(hy)(haryuramyak)
• Bulgarian:стогодишнинаf(stogodišnina)
• Catalan:centenari(ca)m
• Czech:sté výročí
• Danish:hundredårsdag
• Dutch:eeuwfeest(nl)
• Finnish:satavuotispäivä
• French:centenaire(fr)m
• Georgian:ასი წლისთავი(asi c̣listavi)
• German:Hundertjahrfeierf,hundertster Jahrestagm
• Greek:εκατονταετηρίδα(el)f(ekatontaetirída)
• Hungarian:centenárium(hu)
• Italian:centenario(it)m
• Latvian:simtgadu
• Lithuanian:šimtmetis(lt)
• Macedonian:стогоди́шнинаf(stogodíšnina)
• Norman:chent'naithem
• Norwegian:hundreårsdag
• Polish:stulecie(pl)n
• Portuguese:centenário(pt)m
• Romanian:centenar(ro)
• Russian:столе́тие(ru)n(stolétije),столе́тняягодовщи́наf(stolétnjaja godovščína)
• Scottish Gaelic:cuimhneachan nan ceud bliadhnam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:стогодишњицаf,столећеn

  Roman:stogodišnjica(sh)f,stolećen

• Spanish:centenario(es)m
• Swedish:hundraårsdag
• Turkish:yüzüncü yıldönümü

See also

• Thesaurus:frequency

References

• “centennial,adj.andn.”,inOED Online⁠,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,2021.