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Definition of Centenary

1. Noun. The 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it).

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years. "Centennial celebration"

Definition of Centenary

1. a. Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.

2. n. The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century.

Definition of Centenary

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or completing a period of 100 years. ¹

2. Noun. A one hundredth anniversary ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Centenary

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Centenary

centaurette centaurettes centauric centauries centauroid centauroids centaurs centaury centavo centavos

centchroman centenar centenarian centenarians centenaries centenary (current term) centenier centenionalis centennial centennially

centennials center center(a) center-board center-boards center-of-gravity center back center bit center circle center field

Literary usage of Centenary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1905)
"THE centenary OP TRAFALGAR. 1. The Year of Trafalgar. By Henry Newbolt. ... FOB months past the rumour of the centenary of Trafalgar has been with us ..."

2. Report of the Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (1914)
"Five years ago, in association with this Conference, a Committee was organized to bring about a fitting and an adequate celebration of the centenary of ..."

3. Museums Journal by Museums Association (1902)
"He well deserves that the centenary of his birth should be fittingly celebrated. No man of his time did so much to spread an interest in geology and in ..."

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