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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centenary \Cen"te*na*ry\, a. [L. centenarius, fr. centum a hundred.]
Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.
Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial. ``Centenary solemnities.''
--Fuller.
Centenary \Cen"te*na*ry\, n.; pl. Centenaries.
The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century. ``Every centenary of years.''
--Hakewill.A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "period of 100 years," from Latin centenarius "of a hundred, relating to a hundred," from centenai "a hundred each," from centum "hundred" (see hundred). As a noun, "100th anniversary," from 1788.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or completing a period of 100 years. n. A one hundredth anniversary
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years; "centennial celebration" [syn: centennial]
n. the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) [syn: centennial]
Wikipedia
Centenary is an adjective form of century, a period of 100 years.
Centenary may also refer to:
Centenary is a concert for television produced by RTÉ to mark the 100 year anniversary of Ireland's 1916 Rising.
Usage examples of "centenary".
In this Centenary edition the textual variations found in the Harvard College manuscripts, as well as those in the manuscripts belonging to Mr.
Guardian has notified the friends in other countries that, in view of the fact that this is the hundredth year of the Faith and we are going to celebrate our Centenary next May, Spiritual Assemblies may be constituted or elected anytime before next April, wherever there are 9 or more believers.
Communities free to convene conventions will be also meeting this year during the Centenary celebrations.
As you know, he has been pressing the work on the arcade of the Shrine of the Bab in order to have it completed by the Centenary of His martyrdom.
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Shrine in anticipation of having it finished for the July 9 Centenary Celebrations of His Martyrdom.
House of Worship and which will, God willing, through its termination, at the appointed hour, contribute an outstanding share to the projected festivities which are to commemorate the centenary of the Declaration of the Mission of the Founder of our Faith.
The world-wide Centenary celebrations crowning these enterprises were undertaken in such perilous circumstances and carried out despite the formidable obstacles engendered through prolongation of hostilities.
Another centenary commemorating an event as tragic and infinitely more glorious is fast approaching.
Community during the two-year interval separating us from the Centenary celebrations of the prophetic mission of the Founder of our Faith.
Mission of the Founder of our Faith, the centenary of what may be truly regarded as the darkest, the most tragic, the most heroic, period in the annals of a hundred-year-old Revelation.
Teaching Conferences which are to be convened in the course of, and which must signalize, the world-wide celebrations of the Centenary of the Year Nine.
Duke of Caietani and the Committee shall gratefully receive the first American reproduction of the great poem as a contribution most fitting the solemnity of the Centenary, and at the same time as a worthy homage from the New World to one of the chief glories of the country of its discoverer Columbus.
It cannot be said that any of the works of art now in the church are of considerable interest, but an important work of art was nevertheless produced in it at the celebration of the fourth centenary of the birth of Gaudenzio Ferrari, which was held in 1885.