bicentennial
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- adjective
- /ˌbaɪsɛnˈtɛnɪəl/
- US
- 34 In this, West Point's bicentennial year, curriculum changes are once again underway as the Academy pursues its challenging mission in a rapidly changing world.
- bicentennial celebration
- bicentennial year
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Examples
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The bicentennial celebration would proclaim a new "Fun Haiti," reclaiming a tourist reputation lost since the days of Papa Doc.
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President Roosevelt was the keynote speaker for the closing ceremonies of the 1933 bicentennial celebration held at the Savannah Municipal Stadium and addressed a crowd of nearly 40,000 Georgians and South Carolinians.
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And what a great kick off to an entire year of Darwin Bicentennial events.
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They would be lured down by scheduled plans for the bicentennial party on New Year's Eve.
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One bicentennial event that attracted world media attention was the reenactment of the First Fleet to Australia in 1788.
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At the end of the audience, perhaps beyond what protocol required, my father presented the Queen with a bicentennial American coin with the dates 1776-1976 on it.
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Both mother and daughter are 200 years old; consequently, dating their birth to the primera junta nacional de gobierno in 1810, the beginning of their remembering thus coincides with the bicentennial anniversary of Chilean independence.
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During the bicentennial celebration of 1976, she helped prepare musical presentations at the Kennedy Center.
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On July 4, the president spoke to the nation from San Clemente, announcing a bicentennial fete for America's 200th birthday in 1976.
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Much of this bicentennial celebration is good, clean family fun that's both informative and entertaining.
Synonyms
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Relating to a period of two hundred years or its two hundredth anniversary
Surface Forms
Morphology
bicentennial = centennial (transparent) = bi + centennial
The productive prefix 'bi-' (two) attaches to the standalone word 'centennial' to yield a clear meaning 'relating to the 200th anniversary'.
Etymology
Bicentennial comes from bi- 'two' and centennial '100 years', like bicycle for 'two' and century for '100 years'. So bicentennial describes something that relates to a 200th anniversary.