semimillennial
semimillennial adjective: of or related to a 500th anniversary.
Adjective
semimillennial (not comparable)
- Of or related to a 500th anniversary.
- On the occasion of the semimillennial anniversary of Uppsala University, Twelfth Symphony by the romantic Swedish composer Allan PETTERSSON, entitled De Döda på Torget (The Dead in the Marketplace) for chorus and orchestra […] is performed for the first time by the Stockholm Philharmonic.2001, Laura Kuhn, Music since 1900, 6th edition, New York, N.Y.: Schirmer Reference, →ISBN, page 689
- Synonyms:
- quincentennial
Noun
semimillennial (plural semimillennials)
- A 500th anniversary.
- At a casual glance [Karl] Jaspers’ words seem to deprecate research, strange doctrine to preach at the semimillennial of an institution of learning as distinguished as the University of Basel.1969/1970 Winter, Gerald W. Johnson, “Program for the Mini-Intellectual”, in Hiram Haydn, editor, The American Scholar, volume 39, number 1, Richmond, Va.: Phi Beta Kappa, page 50
- Synonyms:
- quincentennial
Synonyms of semimillennial
Forms of semimillennial
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Origin of semimillennial
From semi- + millennial.
Questions about semimillennial
- What does semimillennial mean?
- Semimillennial means of or related to a 500th anniversary.
- What part of speech is semimillennial?
- Semimillennial can be an adjective or a noun.
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