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Definition of "quatercentenary" []

  • A quadricentennial. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "quatercentenary" in a sentence
  • "That sounds like an oxymoron, but it's actually a quatercentenary."
  • "Last week, I wrote about the quatercentenary of the King James Bible, regretting that none of the great literary festivals had plans for a public reading of this astonishing monument of English prose."
  • "This is the quatercentenary of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra!"
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