diamond jubilee


noun
  1. the celebration of a 60th, or occasionally 75th, anniversary

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How to use diamond jubilee in a sentence

  • Tributes to the Queen in the year of her diamond jubilee are unqualified in their admiration.

  • It was at the naval review held by Queen Victoria in 1897, on the occasion of her diamond jubilee.

  • The stamps are of similar shape to the special series issued in diamond jubilee year though they are a trifle larger—1 mm.

    The Stamps of Canada | Bertram Poole
  • Being the only American representative in port, this tarry was imperative, for on the 22d was the Queen's diamond jubilee.

  • And we'll have some flowers in three weeks—the first I shall have had since the diamond jubilee.

    Guy and Pauline | Compton Mackenzie