tercentenary
Americanadjective
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tercentenaries
plural
adjective
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of or relating to a period of 300 years
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of or relating to a 300th anniversary or its celebration
noun
Etymology
Origin of tercentenary
Example Sentences
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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
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
Bill was a fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemists and Society of Antiquaries of London, and contributed to the latter's tercentenary exhibition in 2007.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2010
The tercentenary celebrates its own ignorance of the past, while trampling over it.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2010
In 1864 the expenses of organising the tercentenary celebration in London by way of banquets, concerts, and theatrical performances, seem to have left no surplus for the purpose which the movement set out to fulfil.
From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee
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