tercentenary

American  

[tur-sen-ten-uh-ree, tur-sen-tn-er-ee, tur-sen-tee-nuh-ree] / ˌtɜr sɛnˈtɛn ə ri, tɜrˈsɛn tnˌɛr i, ˌtɜr sɛnˈti nə ri /

Or tercentennial

adjective

plural

tercentenaries

1. tricentennial.

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tercentenary British  

/ ˌtɜːsɛnˈtiːnərɪ /

adjective

1. of or relating to a period of 300 years

2. of or relating to a 300th anniversary or its celebration

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noun

1. an anniversary of 300 years or its celebration

Etymology

Origin of tercentenary

First recorded in 1835–45; ter- + centenary

Example Sentences

And Mendelssohn wrote the “Reformation” Symphony for the tercentenary — but in 1830, the anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, not 1817, a year after the 7-year-old Mendelssohn, born Jewish, was baptized a Lutheran.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2017

He was chairman of the advisory board overseeing the new edition of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works to coincide with the composer's tercentenary in 2014.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2014

The Queen marked the tercentenary of the Revolution of 1688-89 and the Bill of Rights with another speech to MPs and peers.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2014

The tercentenary celebrates its own ignorance of the past, while trampling over it.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2010

With the advent of the exact date of the tercentenary the celebrations were many in number and interesting in variety, in which the members of the British Academy took a prominent part.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred