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centenary

/sen-ten-uh-ree, sen-tn-er-ee; especially British sen-tee-nuh-ree/US // sɛnˈtɛn ə ri, ˈsɛn tnˌɛr i; especially British sɛnˈti nə ri //UK // (sɛnˈtiːnərɪ) //

百年纪念,百年纪念日,百周年纪念,百年诞辰

Related Words

centennial百年纪念,百年纪念日,百年,百年历史hundredth百分之百的,百分之百,第一百次,百分之一百的century世纪,个世纪,百年,世紀centurial百年老店,百岁,百年灵,百分之百centuplicate百科全书,百分之百重复,百分之百重复的,百分之百的重复

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a period of 100 years.
    • : recurring once in every 100 years: a centenary celebration.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cen·ten·ar·ies.

    • : a centennial.
    • : a period of 100 years; century.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incentury
Synonyms
centennial百年纪念,百年纪念日,百年,百年历史centurial百年老店,百岁,百年灵,百分之百
as inhundred
Synonyms
centennial百年纪念,百年纪念日,百年,百年历史century世纪,个世纪,百年,世紀hundredth百分之百的,百分之百,第一百次,百分之一百的centuplicate百科全书,百分之百重复,百分之百重复的,百分之百的重复

Examples

  • Soon after he assumed the party’s top job in 2012, Xi set a deadline for completing national rejuvenation by the PRC’s own centenary in 2049.

  • Perhaps more significant is that the awards come ahead of the Communist Party’s centenary in July, a politically sensitive event for China’s leaders.

  • Nobel Prize winners at a dinner to honor the centenary of the birth of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel prizes.

  • Then in 1989, I was asked to work on the Eisenhower Centenary.

  • On the centenary of World War I, Europe's suddenly facing a crisis of Russian aggression.

  • Martin Luther King asked President John Kennedy to issue a new emancipation proclamation on the centenary of the first.

  • Thus are the historiographical trenches dug for the centenary.

  • July 31 marks the centenary of the birth of the high priest of monetarism, Milton Friedman.

  • Seven years from this present time will witness the Centenary of the railway system.

  • The centenary of Petrarch celebrated at Avignon in 1874 tended to emphasize the importance and the glory of the new literature.

  • A large number assembled to celebrate the centenary of Cook's death.

  • It also thinks that the Tribune is a try weakly and unique daily, besides being a four centenary.

  • The fifth centenary of his birthday, on the twenty-eighth of November, was to be kept with great rejoicings therefore.

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