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quinquennial

/kwɪŋˈkwɛ.ni.əl/

quinquennial adjective: of or related to a five-year period.

Adjective

quinquennial (comparative more quinquennial, superlative most quinquennial)

  1. Of or related to a five-year period.
    • By a singular coincidence, the great master of the Dorian lyre was born during the celebration of the Pythia, the quinquennial festival of Apollo[…]1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 25
    • The best data that BEA have come from the quinquennial censuses of business; these are used to “benchmark” the national accounts every five years and to compute new input-output tables.2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, page 56

Noun

quinquennial (plural quinquennials)

  1. Synonym of quinquennium, a five-year period.
    Synonyms:
    quinquennium
  2. A 5th anniversary, particularly
    1. (historical) Synonym of quinquennalia, the festival and religious ritual held in the 5th year of a Roman emperor's reign.

quinquennial meaning in Tamil

quinquennial in Tamil

ஐந்தாண்டுக்கொரு முறையான, ஐந்தாண்டுக்கொருமுறையான

Synonyms of quinquennial

All synonyms of quinquennial

Forms of quinquennial

Adjective
comparativemore quinquennial
superlativemost quinquennial
Noun
pluralquinquennials

Origin of quinquennial

Borrowed from Latin quīnquenniālis, from quīnquennium (“5-year period”) + -ālis, from quīnquennis (“5-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from quīnque (“five”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).

Words formed from quinquennial

Questions about quinquennial

What does quinquennial mean?
Quinquennial means of or related to a five-year period.
What is quinquennial in Tamil?
Quinquennial in Tamil is ஐந்தாண்டுக்கொரு முறையான, ஐந்தாண்டுக்கொருமுறையான. See Quinquennial meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quinquennial?
Quinquennial can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce quinquennial?
Quinquennial is pronounced /kwɪŋˈkwɛ.ni.əl/.

Words near quinquennial in the dictionary

  1. quinquennalias
  2. quinquennary
  3. quinquennia
  4. quinquenniad
  5. quinquenniads
  6. quinquennial
  7. quinquennially
  8. quinquennials
  9. quinquennium
  10. quinquenniums
  11. quinquepartite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quinquennial (page history and authors); quinquennial (Tamil 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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