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Definitions: Bicentenary |
BicentenaryAdjective1. Of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years; "bicentennial celebration". Noun1. The 200th anniversary. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Bicentenary \Bi*cen"te*na*ry\, adjective. [Prefix bi- centenary.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: BicentenarySynonym: bicentennial (n). (additional references) |
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| "Bicentenary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.27% of the time. "Bicentenary" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 63.27% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.49% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.2% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 2.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "bicentenary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dyqindvjeçar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مؤلف من مائتي سنة, حادث كل مائتي سنة, الذكرى المئوية الثانية, دائم مائتي سنة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чествуване на двестагодишнина, двестагодишен (bicentennial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dvousté výroèí, dvousetletý (bicentennial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | جشن دویست ساله (Bicentennial), دویست ساله . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bicentenaire (bicentennial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δισεκατοντήριδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יובל "מאתים (bicentennial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kétszázados (bicentennial), kétszáz éves évforduló (bicentennial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bicentenario (bicentennial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icentenarybay bicentenário (bicentennial). (various references) двухсотлетняя годовщина, двухсотлетний (bicentennial), двухсотлетие (bicentennial). (various references) dvestagodišnji (bicentennial). (various references) bicentenario (bicentennial). (various references) tvåhundraårsdag. (various references) กินเวลาสองร้อยปี (bicentennial), ครบรอบสองร้อยปี (bicentennial). (various references) ikiyüzüncü yıldönüm, ikiyüz yılda bir olan. (various references) двохсотріччя. (various references) hai trăm năm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bicentenary" (pronounced bīse"ntune'rē) |
| 9 | -s e" n t u n e' r ē | centenary. |
| 5 | -u n e' r ē | cardiopulmonary, cautionary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, coronary, counterrevolutionary, culinary, deflationary, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, functionary, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, noninflationary, ordinary, preliminary, probationary, pulmonary, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, seminary, stationary, stationery, urinary, veterinary, visionary. |
| 4 | -n e' r ē | quaternary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, Cassowary, cemetery, cometary, commentary, commissary, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, cranberry, customary, depositary, Dewberry, dietary, dignitary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, military, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, nonmilitary, obituary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, primary, proprietary, raspberry, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, solitary, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-n-n-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: ancienter, ancientry, cabinetry, centenary, nectarine, renitency. | |
-3 letters: acerbity, bacterin, banneret, cabernet, centiare, creatine, entrance, incenter, increate, iterance, narceine, tyrannic. | |
-4 letters: ancient, arenite, barytic, beanery, betaine, cabinet, cannery, cannier, canteen, carbine, cayenne, centare, centner, ceratin, certain, creatin, crenate, cyanine, cyanite, enteric, enticer, entrain, interne, narcein, nectary, reenact, retinae, tacrine, tannery, tenancy, terebic, trainee. | |
-5 letters: acetin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-n-n-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: cybernetician. | |
+3 letters: cyberneticians. | |
+4 letters: interchangeably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 63 65 6E 74 65 6E 61 72 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i c e n t e n a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0063 0065 006E 0074 0065 006E 0061 0072 0079 |
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