bicentenary
noun
bi·cen·te·na·ry
ˌbī-(ˌ)sen-ˈte-nə-rē 
(ˌ)bī-ˈsen-tᵊn-ˌer-ē,
ˌbī-(ˌ)sen-ˈtē-nə-rē
bicentenary
adjective
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To mark the bicentenary of his death, the Greek Ambassador to the United Kingdom will lay a wreath at Byron’s statue in Trinity College.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Bolcom was one of an international array of composers commissioned by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt, in Austria, to mark the 2009 bicentenary of Joseph Haydn’s death.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 15 July 2023
In Egypt, the bicentenary is both prompting celebrations and sparking calls for Britain to return the stone.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
During the ceremony, held on Peru's bicentenary of independence from Spain, the leftist leader vowed broad changes to fight corruption and monopolies, and to increase spending on education and health.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 29 July 2021
Activists and politicians in France’s formerly colonized overseas territories objected to celebrations of the bicentenary.
—Washington Post, 5 May 2021
In 2005 Jacques Chirac, a Gaullist predecessor at the Elysée Palace, refused—amid protests at the time—to commemorate the bicentenary of Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz.
—The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021
Now, ahead of the bicentenary of his death on May 5th 1821, those rival passions have been revived.
—The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021
This ensured that his tomb became a site of pilgrimage, where the great and the good would come to pay their respects—including the prince of Wales, who laid a wreath on Dickens’ grave in 2012, to mark the bicentenary of his birth.
—Leon Litvack, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Bolcom was one of an international array of composers commissioned by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt, in Austria, to mark the 2009 bicentenary of Joseph Haydn’s death.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 15 July 2023
In Egypt, the bicentenary is both prompting celebrations and sparking calls for Britain to return the stone.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
During the ceremony, held on Peru's bicentenary of independence from Spain, the leftist leader vowed broad changes to fight corruption and monopolies, and to increase spending on education and health.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 29 July 2021
Activists and politicians in France’s formerly colonized overseas territories objected to celebrations of the bicentenary.
—Washington Post, 5 May 2021
In 2005 Jacques Chirac, a Gaullist predecessor at the Elysée Palace, refused—amid protests at the time—to commemorate the bicentenary of Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz.
—The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021
Now, ahead of the bicentenary of his death on May 5th 1821, those rival passions have been revived.
—The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021
This ensured that his tomb became a site of pilgrimage, where the great and the good would come to pay their respects—including the prince of Wales, who laid a wreath on Dickens’ grave in 2012, to mark the bicentenary of his birth.
—Leon Litvack, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
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bicentenary
adjective
bi·cen·te·na·ry
ˌbī-(ˌ)sen-ˈten-ə-rē
(ˈ)bī-ˈsent-ᵊn-ˈer-ē,
ˌbī-(ˌ)sen-ˈtē-nə-rē
bicentenary
noun
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