bicentennial
noun
bi·cen·ten·ni·al
ˌbī-(ˌ)sen-ˈte-nē-əl 
: a 200th anniversary or its celebration
bicentennial
adjective
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Its final unveiling was on Flag Day in June 1976, for the country's bicentennial.
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Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
This year, the bicentennial of the composer’s birth, the Philharmonic has been holding an extended Bruckner seminar.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
In China, given the importance of 60-year cycles, 120th anniversaries are symbolically laden in the way that bicentennials are in the West, so at the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, there were numerous reflections on the start of the Sino-Japanese War.
—Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2018
In honor of the bicentennial of Austen’s death in 2017, the Jane Austen House Museum worked with English wallpaper company Hamilton Weston to recreate three papers, fragments of which had been left like clues around the author’s home.
—Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
This year, the bicentennial of the composer’s birth, the Philharmonic has been holding an extended Bruckner seminar.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
In China, given the importance of 60-year cycles, 120th anniversaries are symbolically laden in the way that bicentennials are in the West, so at the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, there were numerous reflections on the start of the Sino-Japanese War.
—Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2018
In honor of the bicentennial of Austen’s death in 2017, the Jane Austen House Museum worked with English wallpaper company Hamilton Weston to recreate three papers, fragments of which had been left like clues around the author’s home.
—Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Bicentennial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bicentennial. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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bicentennial
adjective
bi·cen·ten·ni·al
ˌbī-(ˌ)sen-ˈten-ē-əl
: relating to a 200th anniversary
bicentennial
noun
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