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sexennial

sexennial adjective: pertaining to a period of six years; taking place once every six years.

Adjective

sexennial (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a period of six years; taking place once every six years.
    • [T]his evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself, as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

Noun

sexennial (plural sexennials)

  1. A sexennial event.

Forms of sexennial

pluralsexennials

Origin of sexennial

From New Latin sexennialis (16th century), equivalent to sexennium + -al.

Words formed from sexennial

Questions about sexennial

What does sexennial mean?
Sexennial means pertaining to a period of six years; taking place once every six years.
What part of speech is sexennial?
Sexennial can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near sexennial in the dictionary

  1. sexed
  2. sexed in
  3. sexed up
  4. sexenary
  5. sexennary
  6. sexennial
  7. sexennially
  8. sexennials
  9. sexennium
  10. sexenniums
  11. sexer

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