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Tricentennial

Definition: Tricentennial

Tricentennial

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Tricentennial

Synonym: tricentenary (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Tricentennial

DomainTitle

Books

  • A tricentennial anthology of South Carolina literature, 1670-1970 (reference)

  • A Tricentennial celebration, Norfolk, 1682-1982 (reference)

  • La Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes et les Provinces-Unies, 1685 : colloque international du tricentenaire, Lyde, avril 1-3, 1985 = The revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the Dutch Republic, 1685 : international congress of the tricentennial, Leyde, 1-3 (reference)

  • Mobile Renaissance: Celebrating Mobile's Tricentennial (reference)

  • The Faces of the city : Albany portraits from three centuries : an exhibition commemorating the tricentennial celebration of the charter of the city of Albany, New York, September 2-October 19, 1986 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Tricentennial

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Dressed with flags and with her crew manning the rail, circa 1907-08. The occasion may be the Presidential Naval Review at Oyster Bay, New York, in September 1906, or the Jamestown Tricentennial Naval Review the following year. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tricentennial

"Tricentennial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Tricentennial" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)75%6143,867
Noun (proper)25%2245,945
                    Total100.00%8N/A

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

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Modern Translation: Tricentennial

Language Translations for "tricentennial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

ムびミオムムミセムひサミオムひクミオ ムびミオムムミセムひサミオムひスミクミケ (tercentenary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tricentennial

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-r-t-t"

-3 letters: centennial, centiliter, creatinine, incinerate, licentiate.

-4 letters: ancienter, anticline, antielite, carnitine, entertain, interclan, interlace, interlent, interline, intricate, itinerant, itinerate, lateritic, nectarine, triennial, triticale.

-5 letters: centiare, clarinet, creatine, elaterin, entailer, entrance, incenter, incitant, incliner, increate, inertiae, inertial, interact, internal, intertie, intranet, irenical, iterance, lanneret, laterite, literate, literati, narceine, nettlier, raclette, reincite, reliance, renitent, reticent, retinite.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-r-t-t"
 

+3 letters: intercontinental.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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