sexennial

American  

[sek-sen-ee-uhl] / sɛkˈsɛn i əl /

adjective

1. of or for six years.

2. occurring every six years.

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sexennial British  

/ sɛkˈsɛnɪəl /

adjective

1. occurring once every six years or over a period of six years

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noun

1. a sixth anniversary

Other Word Forms

• sexennially adverb

Etymology

Origin of sexennial

1640–50; < Latin sexenni ( s ) six years old ( sex six + -enn-, combining form of annus year + -is adj. suffix) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Sexennial, seks-en′yal, adj. lasting six years: happening once in six years—also Sextenn′ial.—adv.

From Project Gutenberg

By the testimony of those renowned surgeons, Sir Henry Thompson and Mr. Erichsen, by the award to Doctor Bigelow of a sexennial prize founded by the Marquis d' Argenteuil, and by general consent, this innovation is established as one of the great modern improvements in surgery.

From Project Gutenberg

The occasion: the Tromenie, Brittany's sexennial pilgrimage, whose history, like Locronan's, dates back to the 5th or 6th century.

From Time Magazine Archive

The parliaments were not wholly free from faction, I admit; but this evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.

From Project Gutenberg

Associated words: sexennial, sexennially. size, n. magnitude, volume, dimensions, amplitude, bulk, extent, bigness. skedaddle, v.

From Project Gutenberg