Meanings
plural tricentennials
- The 300th anniversary of an event or happening.
The Lower Wall Street Business Men’s Association deposited the box with the historical society after celebrating the tricentennial of the 1614 charter of the New Netherland Company, one of the colony’s pioneering commercial enterprises and a precursor of New York business.
2014 October 9, “Time capsule unearthed in New York: 'This is the thrill of recovering relics'”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated Press, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2020Synonyms: tricentenary, tercentenary
- not comparableOccurring every three hundred (300) years.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe 300th anniversary of an event or happening.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof or relating to or completing a period of 300 years
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
By surface analysis, tri- + centennial and tri- + cent- + -ennial.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French tricentenaire, tricentenaire
- tricentenaire300th anniversary
- tricentenaireoccurring every 300 years
Italian trecentenario, trecentenario
- trecentenario300th anniversary
- trecentenariooccurring every 300 years
Russian трёхсотле́тие
- трёхсотле́тие (trjoxsotlétije)300th anniversary
Spanish tricentenario, tricentenario
- tricentenario300th anniversary
- tricentenariooccurring every 300 years
Cite this entry
tricentennial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricentennial
“tricentennial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricentennial. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tricentennial,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricentennial.
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