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quadrennial

UK/kwɒˈdɹɛn.i.əl//kwɑˈdɹɛni.əl/

quadrennial adjective: happening every four years.

Adjective

quadrennial (not comparable)

  1. Happening every four years.
    • The quadrennial election of Chief Magistrate has passed off with less than the usual excitement.1852, Millard Fillmore, State of the Union Address
    Synonyms:
    quadannual
  2. Lasting for four years.

Noun

quadrennial (plural quadrennials)

  1. A four-year period, a quadrennium.
    • International rowing's elite tend to think in terms of quadrennials — the four-year cycle between Olympic Games — but the addition of the light women's double to Olympic program prior to the 1996 Atlanta Games has also brought distinct eras to the event.2002, Rowing News, volume 9, number 14, page 20

quadrennial meaning in Tamil and Kannada

quadrennial in Tamil

நாண்காண்டுகள் நீடிக்கின்ற, நான்காண்டுகளுக்கு ஒரு முறையான, நான்காண்டுகளுக்கு ஒருமுறையான, நான்காண்டுகள் நீடிக்கிற

quadrennial in Kannada

ಚತುರ್ವಾರ್ಷಿಕ, ನಾಲ್ಕು ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೊಮ್ಮೆ

Synonyms of quadrennial

Forms of quadrennial

Adjective
alternative formquadriennial
Noun
pluralquadrennials

Origin of quadrennial

Borrowed from Latin quadriennium (“four-year period”), from quattuor (“four”) + annus (“year”). By surface analysis, quadr- + -ennial.

Words formed from quadrennial

Words that rhyme with quadrennial

Questions about quadrennial

What does quadrennial mean?
Quadrennial means happening every four years.
What is quadrennial in Tamil?
Quadrennial in Tamil is நாண்காண்டுகள் நீடிக்கின்ற, நான்காண்டுகளுக்கு ஒரு முறையான, நான்காண்டுகளுக்கு ஒருமுறையான. See Quadrennial meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quadrennial?
Quadrennial can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce quadrennial?
Quadrennial is pronounced /kwɒˈdɹɛn.i.əl/ (UK).

Words near quadrennial in the dictionary

  1. quadrellas
  2. quadrels
  3. quadreme
  4. quadremes
  5. quadrennia
  6. quadrennial
  7. quadrennially
  8. quadrennials
  9. quadrennium
  10. quadrenniums
  11. Quadri

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quadrennial (page history and authors); quadrennial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quadrennial (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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