vicennial
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9.9
Happening once every twenty years or lasting twenty years
- adjective
- /vɪˈsɛn.i.əl/
- Specialized
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vicenal
- The vicennial report highlighted the significant changes the organization had made over the last two decades.
Examples
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The city's vicennial festival draws thousands of visitors every twenty years.
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They celebrated their vicennial reunion, bringing together friends from their graduating class after twenty years.
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With my vicennial perspective, I can identify both bad and good in the extensive debate.
Academic text (1992)
Surface Forms
vicennial positive
Etymology
The word vicennial comes from the root vicen- meaning 'twenty' and the ending -ennial, as in centennial 'hundred years' or biennial 'two years', so it means 'occurring every twenty years' or 'lasting twenty years'.