Definition of Tercentenary

1. Noun. The 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it).

Exact synonyms: Tercentennial, Triennial
Generic synonyms: Anniversary, Day Of Remembrance

Definition of Tercentenary

1. a. Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years.

Definition of Tercentenary

1. Noun. the 300th anniversary of an event ¹

2. Adjective. of, or relative to such an anniversary, or to a span of 300 years ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tercentenary

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tercentenary

terbium oxide
terbiums
terbutaline
terbutaline sulfate
terbuthylazine
terce
tercel
tercel gentle
tercel gentles
tercelet
tercelets
tercellene
tercels
tercels gentle
tercentenaries
tercentenary (current term)
tercentennial
tercentennials
terces
tercet
tercets
tercian
tercians
tercile
terciles
tercine
tercio
tercios
terdiurnal

Literary usage of Tercentenary

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

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"J Educ 83- Educ 84:405 О 26 '16 Le troisième centenaire de Shakspeare et la Mondes 6 per 32:SlS-44 Ap 15 '16 \\ hat the Shakespeare tercentenary celebration ..."

2. The Voice of the Negro 1919 by Robert Thomas Kerlin (1920)
"The Afro-American tercentenary The tercentenary of the importation of the Negro to the American Colonies was commemorated in all parts of the country, ..."

3. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"Treating of the Pilgrims and Puritans, the tercentenary Celebration strikes a vibrant key in this work, and to the Pilgrim tercentenary Commission, ..."

4. Collections of the Maine Historical Society by Maine Historical Society (1906)
"THE WAYMOUTH tercentenary The celebration of the three hundredth anniversary ... As chairman of the Thomaston committee on the tercentenary he worked early ..."

5. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations by Royal Society of Canada (1908)
"THE tercentenary CELEBRATION AT QUEBEC. An event of great moment in the history of our country is the celebration which is to be held next July in the ..."

6. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1908)
"Consequently in last October fell the tercentenary of his death, a solemn historical occasion worthy of due celebration. But modern India was, it seems, ..."

7. New Adventures by Michael Monahan (1917)
"THE SHAKESPEARE tercentenary An Elizabethan Performance DURING MY visit to town the Shakespeare tercentenary was in full swing, but it seemed to me that the ..."

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