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Anniversary

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast.

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Bicentenary 76% connected

Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.

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Bicentennial 76% connected

Consisting of two hundred years.

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Birthday 76% connected

The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.

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Centenary 76% connected

Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.

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Centennial 76% connected

Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.

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Jubilee 76% connected

Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were libe…

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Millenary 76% connected

Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

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Millennium 76% connected

A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is…

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Semicentennial 76% connected

Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration.

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Tercentenary 76% connected

Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years.

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Triennial 76% connected

Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign.

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Day 76% connected

The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunsh…

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