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TERCENTENARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tercentenary mean?
• TERCENTENARY (noun)
The noun TERCENTENARY has 1 sense:
1. the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
Familiarity information: TERCENTENARY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
tercentenary; tercentennial; triennial
Hypernyms ("tercentenary" is a kind of...):
anniversary; day of remembrance (the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it))
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