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tredecennial

tredecennial noun: a period of thirteen years.

Noun

tredecennial sg

  1. (nonce-word, rare, singular) A period of thirteen years.
    • The tredecennial covered by the period of the survey was in a sense a most remarkable one; for it includes, with almost exact divisions, three significant sub periods: the prewar, the war and the post-war.1952, Proceedings of the IInd International Congress on Criminology III: “Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis”, page 65

Origin of tredecennial

Latin trēdecennium + English -al or Latin trēdecim + English -ennial

Questions about tredecennial

What does tredecennial mean?
Tredecennial means a period of thirteen years.
What part of speech is tredecennial?
Tredecennial is a noun.

Words near tredecennial in the dictionary

  1. Trecwn
  2. treddle
  3. treddled
  4. treddles
  5. treddling
  6. tredecennial
  7. tredecillion
  8. tredecillions
  9. tredecimal
  10. tredecuple
  11. tredecuples

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