sestercentenary
English
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editNoun
editsestercentenary (plural sestercentenaries)
- A two hundred fiftieth anniversary.
- The city of New York celebrated its sestercentenary in 1903.
- 2019, Rev'd Dr. Mark Smith, Chapel Report[1], Clare College, Cambridge:
- It’s a splendid description of our Chapel building, which this year marked its sestercentenary.
Adjective
editsestercentenary (not comparable)
- Of or relating to such an anniversary, or to a span of two hundred fifty years.
- 1982 saw the sestercentenary commemoration of George Washington's birth.
- 2020, Angus Trumble, On Endeavour in Australian Waters[2], National Museum of Australia:
- To Cook the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 was markedly more recent than the arrival of the Endeavour is to us in this sestercentenary year.