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bicentennial
[ bahy-sen-ten-ee-uhl ]
adjective
- pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary:
bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
- consisting of or lasting 200 years:
a bicentennial period.
- occurring every 200 years:
the bicentennial return of a comet.
noun
- a 200th anniversary:
The United States had its bicentennial in 1976.
- a celebration of such an anniversary.
Confusables Note
Other yvlog Forms
- c·ٱn·· adverb
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bicentennial1
Example Sentences
The Great America branding, both for the Santa Clara park and its Midwestern counterpart, was a nod to their opening dates: 1976, the nation’s bicentennial.
In March, In Our DNA SC research coordinators collected more than 30 DNA samples at a bicentennial event in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where more than 60% of residents identify as Black.
Ahead of the bicentennial, Georgia’s oldest city had early 18,000 hotel rooms nearly sold out for the weekend.
In the floor lay a time capsule, a measure of the owner’s faith in the future, to be opened on the paper’s bicentennial: Dec. 4, 2081.
Rekindled interest in Maine’s first official flag coincided with the state’s bicentennial in 2020.
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