quadranscentennial
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin quadrans, from quadrans (“quarter”) + -ennium (compare annus (“year”)) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]quadranscentennial (plural quadranscentennials)
- The twenty-fifth anniversary of an event or happening.
- Synonym: (informal) silver jubilee
- 2017 December 22, James Higham, “Transforming societies and transforming tourism: sustainable tourism in times of change”, in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, volume 26, number 1:
- It is a year since we marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, noting then that as we “embark upon the next quadranscentennial… we recognise that the 25 years ahead present a new order of challenges confronting sustainable development and sustainable tourism”.
Related terms
[edit]- (a fourth or a quarter): see quadrans
Adjective
[edit]quadranscentennial (not comparable)
- Occurring every twenty-five years.
- 2014, Michael Gose, Common Sense: What It Means to Be a Teacher, page 166:
- So when I planned a Quadranscentennial Pnyx, the quadranscentennial gives away that I had otherwise learned my lesson not to undertake such ventures, because I would not be prepared to undertake another for 25 years, when I expect to still be teaching at the age of 91.
- Of or related to a twenty-five-year period.
References
[edit]- quadranscentennial on dict.cc
- quadranscentennial in Andrew R. Walkling (2016) Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688, Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge
- quadranscentennial in Michael Gose (2014) Common Sense: What It Means to Be a Teacher, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield
- quadranscentennial in Robert Gaskins (2012) Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint, San Francisco: Vinland Books