Bicentennial

Definitions: Bicentennial

Bicentennial

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years; "bicentennial celebration".

Noun

1. The 200th anniversary.

Date "bicentennial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bicentennial

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
BINET	English	Bicentennial Information Network	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Bicentennial

Synonym: bicentenary (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bicentennial

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity	Rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day; Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Bicentennial

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Anything below the stereo and on this side of the bicentennial glasses. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) Man, I ain't seen anybody regurgitate like that since the bicentennial celebrations. (Ticket to Heaven; writing credit: Anne Cameron; Josh Freed) My boyfriend had a bicentennial. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)
Movie/TV Titles	A Bicentennial Movie (1976) Bicentennial Minutes (1976)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bicentennial

Domain	Title
Books	Bicentennial edition of the Secret proceedings and debates of the convention assembled at Philadelphia, in the year 1787, for the purpose of forming the Constitution of the United States of America (reference) Bicentennial Man (reference) Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies) (reference) New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial (reference) Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Bicentennial Man (reference) Bicentennial Man/Phenomenon (reference) The Evening Parade: Special Marine Corps Bicentennial Edition (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Bicentennial Burritos (reference) Bicentennial Man: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) Mozart Bicentennial Program (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bicentennial

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Photo Album: Bicentennial

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, with Navy helicopter during 1976 Bicentennial Tall Ship celebration.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Fireworks over New York during Bicentennial celebration.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Anchored in New York Harbor, dressed with flags and manning her her rails in recognition of Independence Day, 4 July 1976. Dale was one of the ships present for the U.S. Bicentennial International Naval Review and Operation Sail. Photographed by PHAN Gaudreau.Credit: NAVY.		Bicentennial memorial, Detroit, principal elevation.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Peoples' bicentennial festival, advancing the peoples' struggles for jobs and democracy, against racism and war.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Bicentennial

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Let us engrave it now in each of our hearts as we begin our Bicentennial.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Bicentennial

"Bicentennial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Bicentennial" is used about 18 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
Adjective (general or positive)	94.44%	17	85,106
Noun (proper)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bicentennial

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ohio bicentennial	165	bicentennial columbus park	5
bicentennial man	47	ohio bicentennial celebration	5
bicentennial	44	bicentennial train wagon	5
ohio bicentennial barn	31	bicentennial realty	5
lewis and clark bicentennial	23	ohio bicentennial bell	5
bicentennial park	14	bicentennial county hamilton library	4
bicentennial ohio train wagon	14	bicentennial event ohio	4
bicentennial logo ohio	13	bicentennial worthington.org	4
1976 bicentennial	11	barn bicentennial	4
bicentennial flag ohio	9	bicentennial dollar half	4
bicentennial quarters	9	bicentennial stamp	4
bicentennial quarter	8	bicentennial joliet park	4
bicentennial coin	8	bicentennial center salina	3
bicentennial boom red white	7	bicentennial flag	3
bicentennial columbus ohio park	7	bicentennial ohios	3
bicentennial louisiana purchase	6	american bicentennial	3
bicentennial chattanooga county hamilton library	6	bicentennial celebration	3
ohio bicentennial commission	6	bicentennial us	3
bicentennial chattanooga library	6	bicentennial merchandise ohio	3
bicentennial louisiana	6	bicentennial ohio ship tall	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bicentennial

Language		Translations for "bicentennial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏يوبيل المئتين, ‏مائتي سنة, ‏مرة كل قرنين. (various references)

Bulgarian		двестагодишнина, двестагодишен (bicentenary). (various references)

Chinese		二百年. (various references)

Czech		dvousetletý (bicentenary). (various references)

Farsi		جشن دویست ساله (Bicentenary). (various references)

French		bicentenaire (bicentenary). (various references)

German		zweihundertjährig. (various references)

Greek		διακοσαετήσ, διακοσαετία. (various references)

Hebrew		יובל �"מאתים (bicentenary), אחת למאתים ש� �". (various references)

Hungarian		kétszázados (bicentenary), kétszáz éves évforduló (bicentenary). (various references)

Italian		bicentenario (bicentenary). (various references)

Pig Latin		icentennialbay

Portuguese		bicentenário (bicentenary). (various references)

Romanian		bicentenar. (various references)

Russian		двухсотлетний (bicentenary), двухсотлетие (bicentenary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dvestagodišnjica, dvestagodišnji (bicentenary). (various references)

Spanish		bicentenario (bicentenary). (various references)

Thai		กินเวลาสองร้อยปี (bicentenary), ครบรอบสองร้อยปี (bicentenary). (various references)

Turkish		iki yüz yıllık, iki yüz yılda bir olan. (various references)

Ukranian		двохсотрічний, двохсотлітні роковини. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Bicentennial

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bicentennial": bicentennials. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bicentennial"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bicentennial" (pronounced bī'sente"nēul)
9	-s e n t e" n ē u l	centennial.
5	-e" n ē u l	biennial, decennial, millennial, perennial, quadrennial, triennial.
4	-n ē u l	ceremonial, colonial, intracranial, lineal, matrilineal, matrimonial, menial, patrilineal, testimonial.
3	-ē u l	actuarial, adverbial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, alluvial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biaxial, binomial, biomaterial, bronchial, burial, cereal, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, conspiratorial, convivial, curatorial, custodial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, entrepreneurial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, filial, fluvial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, industrial, janitorial, jovial, laryngeal, magisterial, malarial, managerial, marsupial, material, medial, memorial, mercurial, microbial, ministerial, myocardial, nomenclatorial, parochial, pictorial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, professorial, prosecutorial, proverbial, pseudopodial, radial, raptorial, remedial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, terrestrial, territorial, tracheal, trivial, tutorial, venereal, vestigial, vitriol.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Bicentennial

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-t"
	-2 letters: centennial.
	-3 letters: anticline.
	-4 letters: biennale, biennial, binnacle, celibate, citeable.
	-5 letters: albinic, albitic, ancient, aniline, betaine, biennia, cabinet, canteen, centile, ciliate, citable, encinal, incline, lenient, licente, lineate, tenable.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-t"
	+1 letter: bicentennials.
	+5 letters: nonenforceability.
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