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Definition: Centenary |
CentenaryAdjective1. Of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years; "centennial celebration". Noun1. The 100th anniversary. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "centenary" was first used: 1607. (references) |
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The Centenary Bridge is the twelth crossing of the Brisbane River.
Centenary Bridge, BrisbaneAs it forms part of Brisbane's Western Freeway it is used primarily by vehicular traffic, but does carry pedestrian traffic if required.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Centenary Bridge, Brisbane."
| 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 |
| CERUDEB | English | Centenary Rural Development Bank | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CentenarySynonym: centennial (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Five | Hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century; hundredweight, cwt.; one hundred and forty-four, gross. |
Centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial; secular, hundredth; thousandth; | |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Anniversary, jubilee, centenary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Centenary |
| English words defined with "centenary": 366 days ♦ bissextile year ♦ Centenaries ♦ Gregorian calendar ♦ intercalary year ♦ leap year ♦ New Style. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "centenary": Anniversary. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "centenary": tricentenary. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Centenary meeting of The American Board, Oct. 11-14, 1910, Boston, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Centenary pageant of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to be held at Baltimore, Md., Sept. 24 to Oct. 8, 1927. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | V.I. Lenin centenary, 1870-1970. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "A very old wood table" by Dino Gracio Commentary: "Clicked (1972) in a centenary house in a very small city in Goias, Brasil." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Centenary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.43% of the time. "Centenary" is used about 370 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) | 52.43% | 194 | 22,014 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 38.92% | 144 | 26,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.84% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (common) | 0.81% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 370 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Centenary International Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "centenary": quater centenary. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "centenary": centenary-class. | |
Ending with "centenary": bi-centenary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "centenary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qindvjeçar (centenarian, century), përvjetor i njëqindtë, njëqindvjeçar (centenarian, centennial), kremtim i njëqindvjetorit. (various references) | |
Arabic | يوبيل المئوي (centennial), مئوي (centigrade, percentage), حادث مرة كل قرن, ذكرى مئوية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стогодишнина (centennial), век (age, centennial, century, cycle, epoch, period). (various references) | |
Chinese | 百年 (Centenaries, Centennial). (various references) | |
Czech | stoletý (centennial), sté výroèí. (various references) | |
Danish | biografens hundredår (centenary of the cinema). (various references) | |
Dutch | honderd jaar film (centenary of the cinema). (various references) | |
Farsi | سده (Centennial, Century), صدساله (Centennial), جشن یایادبودصدساله . (various references) | |
Finnish | vuosisataisjuhla, satavuotisjuhla (centennial), satavuotinen (centennial). (various references) | |
French | centenaire (centenarian, centennial). (various references) | |
German | Jahrhundert (centennial, century), hundertjahrfeier (centennial, centennial celebrations). (various references) | |
Greek | εκατονταετηρίδα (centennial, century). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יובל מאה (centennial), של מאה שנה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | századik (centennial, hundredth), százéves évforduló (centennial), centenárium (centennial), százéves (centenarian, centennial), centenáriumi (centennial). (various references) | |
Italian | centenario (centenarian, centennial, hundred-year-old), secolo (centennial, century). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 百年祭 (centennial celebration). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひゃくねんさい (centennial celebration). (various references) | |
Manx | keead blein, cooinaghtyn keead blein. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | entenarycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | centenário (centenarian, centennial), secular (archaic, laic, laical, lay, layman, profane, secular, temporal, time-worn, worldly). (various references) | |
Romanian | centenar (centenarian, centennial). (various references) | |
Russian | столетняя годовщина (centennial), столетний (centenarian, centennial), столетие столетний (centennial). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stogodišnjica, stogodišnji (centennial). (various references) | |
Spanish | centenario (centenarian, centennial). (various references) | |
Swedish | hundraårsdag (centennial). (various references) | |
Thai | การครบรอบหนึ่งร้อยปี (centennial), ที่เกี่ยวกับศตวรรษ. (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzyıl (century), yüzüncü yıldönümü (centennial), yüz yıllık (centenarian, centennial), yüz yılda bir olan, asırlık (agelong, age-old, centenarian, centuries old), asır (age, century). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сторіччяя, століття (centennial, century), столітній ювілей, столітній (centenarian, centennial), сто років, сто фунтів, сота річниця (centennial), сотий (hundredth), вік (age, century, years). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trăm năm (century), thế kỷ lễ kỷ niệm một trăm năm, thời gian trăm năm, sự làm lễ kỷ niệm một trăm năm. (various references) | |
Welsh | canmlwyddiant (centennial). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | centenarius. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "centenary": bicentenary, quatercentenary, quincentenary, sesquicentenary, tercentenary. (additional references) | |
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"Centenary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cantenary, Centenario, centinary, Centreparc, Entelnor, Mcentegart, Rentenmark. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "centenary" (pronounced se"ntune'rē) |
| 9 | s e" n t u n e' r ē | bicentenary. |
| 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, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, interplanetary, involuntary, 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-c-e-e-n-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: entrance. | |
-2 letters: cannery, canteen, cayenne, centare, centner, crenate, nectary, reenact, tannery, tenancy. | |
-3 letters: canner, canter, careen, carnet, carney, center, centra, centre, cerate, cetane, cranny, create, eatery, ecarte, entera, neaten, neater, nectar, recane, recant, recent, rennet, tanner, tanrec, tenace, tenner, tenrec, trance. | |
-4 letters: anent, antre, arete, caner, canny, canty, caret, carny, carte, cater, crane, crate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-n-n-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: bicentenary, entranceway, interagency. | |
+3 letters: entranceways, inadvertency, tercentenary. | |
+4 letters: cybernetician, incrementally, indeterminacy, quincentenary, transcendency. | |
+5 letters: concentratedly, cyberneticians, transcendently. | |
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