quadranscentennial

UK/ˈkwɒd.ɹən.sɛnˈtɛn.ɪ.əl/US/ˈkwɑd.ɹən.sɛnˈtɛn.i.əl/

noun

The twenty-fifth anniversary of an event or happening.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

nounquadranscentennial (plural quadranscentennials)

plural quadranscentennials

  1. The twenty-fifth anniversary of an event or happening.

    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”.

    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

    Synonyms: silver jubilee

adjectivequadranscentennial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring every twenty-five years.

    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.

    2014, Michael Gose, Common Sense: What It Means to Be a Teacher, page 166
  2. not comparableOf or related to a twenty-five-year period.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe twenty-fifth anniversary of an event or happening.

Origin

  1. Latinquadrāns“quarter”
  2. Englishquadranscentennial

From Latin quadrāns (“quarter”) + centennis (“100-year”) + -ālis.

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Chicago

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