quadrennial
occurring every four years: a quadrennial festival.
of or lasting for four years: a quadrennial period.
an event occurring every four years, as an anniversary or its celebration.
Origin of quadrennial
1Other words from quadrennial
- quad·ren·ni·al·ly, adverb
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How to use quadrennial in a sentence
In 2014, the quadrennial review by the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service laid out four scenarios for how the fire landscape might look in a decade or so.
California’s Forever Fire | by Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, photography by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times Magazine | January 3, 2022 | ProPublicaFor many aspiring Olympians, the quadrennial event is the culmination of a lifetime of sacrifices to compete against the best athletes in the world while representing their country on an international stage.
The Olympic Games are a quadrennial opportunity for thousands of elite athletes to come together not just in pursuit of sporting greatness, but in the name of humanity.
Cafritz, one of the last of the District’s grand dame hostesses, threw quadrennial inaugural parties for nearly three decades.
Buffy Cafritz, D.C. philanthropist and bipartisan political hostess, dies at 91 | Matt Schudel | May 6, 2021 | Washington PostOn Monday morning, Bowser said at a news conference that she urged all Americans to stay home rather than travel to Washington, a city that normally welcomes the quadrennial flood of inauguration tourists with open arms.
Today in D.C.: Headlines to start your Tuesday in D.C., Maryland and Virginia | Teddy Amenabar, Justin Wm. Moyer | January 12, 2021 | Washington Post
This quadrennial “running of the mulls” almost makes you feel sorry for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Matt Latimer: Why I Hate Town Halls and Undecided Voters | Matt Latimer | October 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter every quadrennial vice-presidential audition, another cautionary guideline emerges.
How Obama Will Cash In on Paul Ryan: Medicare, Taxes, Education & More | Robert Shrum | August 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is exactly when and how these quadrennial Democratic cluster-you-know-whats start.
Michael Tomasky Gives the President Some Advice: Grow a Pair, Obama! | Michael Tomasky | June 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen he floated his quadrennial idea three months ago, I assumed it was more of the same.
Who came up the shortest in the Capitol's quadrennial reshuffling?
I fairly gloat over these quadrennial political campaigns of ours.
The Genial Idiot | John Kendrick Bangsquadrennial, kwod-ren′yal, adj. comprising four years: once in four years.
I did not believe as the quadrennial period approached in 1892 that Mr. Cleveland could be elected.
Marse Henry (Vol. 2) | Henry WattersonThe quadrennial renewal of all the municipal councils of France took place in May 1900.
The campaign which followed the conventions was the most remarkable in the long history of our quadrennial spectacles.
Contemporary American History, 1877-1913 | Charles A. Beard
British Dictionary definitions for quadrennial
/ (kwɒˈdrɛnɪəl) /
occurring every four years
relating to or lasting four years
a period of four years
Derived forms of quadrennial
- quadrennially, adverb
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