sestercentenaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌsɛstəˌsɛnˈtiːnəɹi/, /ˌsɛstəˌsɛnˈtiːnɹi/, /-ˌs(ə)n-/, /-ˈtɛn-/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌsɛstəɹˌsɛnˈtɛnəɹi/, /ˌsɛstəɹˈsɛntəˌnɛɹi/
• 韻: -iːnəɹi, -ɛnəɹi, -iːnɹi, -ɛnɹi
• ハイフネーション: ses‧ter‧cent‧en‧ary

形容詞

sestercentenary (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of or relating to a 250th anniversary, or to a span of 250 years.

   Synonym: semiquincentennial

   1982 saw the sestercentenary commemoration of George Washington’s birth.

   • 2020, Angus Trumble, On Endeavour in Australian Waters‎, National Museum of Australia, archived from the original on 20 March 2022:

     To [James] Cook the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 was markedly more recent than the arrival of the Endeavour is to us in this sestercentenary year.

関連する語

• sestercentennial

名詞

sestercentenary (plural sestercentenaries)

1. (rare) A 250th anniversary.

   Synonym: semiquincentennial

   The city of New York celebrated its sestercentenary in 1903.

   • 1985, C[olin] A[rchibald] Russell, “Introduction”, in C. A. Russell, editor, Recent Developments in the History of Chemistry, London: Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, footnote 5, page 3:

     [T]he Report of the 3rd BOC Priestley Conference, 'Oxygen and the Conversion of Future Feedstocks', RSC, 1984, has 9 historical papers relating to the [Joseph] Priestley sestercentenary in 1983.

   • 2009, Jack [John T.] Lynch, “Enchaining Syllables, Lashing the Wind: Samuel Johnson Lays down the Law”, in The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of “Proper” English, from Shakespeare to South Park, New York, N.Y.: Walker Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 72:

     [T]he Ottawa Citizen noted, "It's been 250 years to the day since the appearance of Samuel Johnson's celebrated first dictionary of English." And it was not just the sestercentenary, to use a good dictionary word, that prompted these declarations. […] But the legend is entirely without foundation. There were plenty of dictionaries before 1755.

   • 2017 March 4, “Fly who to the Moon?”, in The Economist, volume 422, number 9030, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, column 2:

     […] Mr [Donald] Trump evoked some of the wonders the United States might achieve by the time of its sestercentenary in this week's speech to Congress: "American footprints on distant worlds," he said, "are not too big a dream."

   • 2019, Mark Smith, Chapel Report‎, Clare College, Cambridge, archived from the original on 5 July 2024:

     It's a splendid description of our Chapel building, which this year marked its sestercentenary.