Meanings
plural quadranscentennials
- 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 1Synonyms: silver jubilee
- 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 - not comparableOf or related to a twenty-five-year period.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe twenty-fifth anniversary of an event or happening.
Origin
- Latinquadrāns“quarter”
- Englishquadranscentennial
From Latin quadrāns (“quarter”) + centennis (“100-year”) + -ālis.
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