Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to an age or period of 100 years.
- adjective Occurring once every 100 years.
- adjective Of or relating to a 100th anniversary.
- noun A 100th anniversary or a celebration of it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dice game in which the object is to secure pips, or multiples of pips, which will make the figures from 1 to 12, and then from 12 to 1, in numerical order.
- Consisting of or lasting a hundred years; completing a hundred years: as, a centennial epoch; the centennial year.
- Existing for a century or more.
- Happening every hundred years; relating to or marking a centenary: as, a centennial celebration.
- noun The commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before: as, the centennial of American independence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before.
- adjective Happening once in a hundred years.
- adjective Lasting or aged a hundred years.
- noun United States The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The 100th
anniversary of an event or happening.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years
- noun the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I recollect one year way back yonder we had what they called a centennial snow -- that was the biggest snow that's ever been and the best crop year I ever knowed.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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A centennial is a special celebration for any city, and Pharr is no exception.
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** I know for a fact that several members of THS were deeply involved in centennial celebration activities.
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The HS suggests that the climate lacks long term centennial to millenial variability until it is perturbed by a rise in atmospheric CO2.
WSJ: House Energy report on the "mutual admiration society" « Climate Audit 2006
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And yet Orwell's centennial is also a bit sad, given how he went out: on the brink of international renown for 1984, the physically exhausting writing of which -- on the bleak Isle of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides -- hastened his death.
My Own Private Orwell: Why the high priest of dystopia still matters 2003
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The centennial is sad for another reason, entirely separate from his biography.
My Own Private Orwell: Why the high priest of dystopia still matters 2003
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And it's one of the songs that my guest, Michael Feinstein, has chosen to play in celebration of Frank Loesser's centennial, which is today.
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And it's one of the songs that my guest, Michael Feinstein, has chosen to play in celebration of Frank Loesser's centennial, which is today.
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As you'd expect, his centennial is the occasion for festschrifts, festivals ( "Beckett festival" no longer sounds oxymoronic) and reminscences from friends and acquaintances who hadn't already weighed in, and from some who had.
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I'm doing a book on my grandmother, a biography of my grandmother for her centennial, which is coming up in November of 1996.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/move-over-millennials-youre-already-obsolete-2015-6
Step aside, millennials!
You're already toast in the eyes of advertisers.
The new hot thing? "Centennials."
What's a centennial? A younger, better version of a millennial.
June 26, 2015