sestercentenary
/ˌsɛstəɹˌsɛnˈtɛnəɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to a 250th anniversary, or to a span of 250 years.
noun
A 250th anniversary.
Example Sentences
- "1982 saw the sestercentenary commemoration of George Washington’s birth."
- "To [James] 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."
- "The city of New York celebrated its sestercentenary in 1903."
- "[T]he Report of the 3rd BOC Priestley Conference, 'Oxygen and the Conversion of Future Feedstocks', RSC, 1984, has 9 historical papers relating to the [Joseph] Priestley sestercentenary in 1983."
- "[T]he Ottawa Citizen noted, "It's been 250 years to the day since the appearance of Samuel Johnson's celebrated first dictionary of English." And it was not just the sestercentenary, to use a good dictionary word, that prompted these declarations. […] But the legend is entirely without foundation. There were plenty of dictionaries before 1755."
- "[…] Mr [Donald] Trump evoked some of the wonders the United States might achieve by the time of its sestercentenary in this week's speech to Congress: "American footprints on distant worlds," he said, "are not too big a dream.""
Etymology
Origin
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌsɛstəɹˌsɛnˈtɛnəɹi/
- British English: /ˌsɛstəˌsɛnˈtiːnəɹi/