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発音

• (RP) enPR: sĕm'pərăʹnyo͞oəl, IPA: /ˌsɛmpəˈɹænjuːəl/, SAMPA: /%sEmp@"r\{nju:@l/

形容詞

semperannual (not comparable)

1. (まれに nonce word) Perpetually perennial.

引用

• 1861: George Meredith, Evan Harrington, page 239

  [S]upposing Lord Mayor’s footmen to be plumed like estridges — gorgeous as the sun at Midsummer — what must Lord Mayors be, and semperannual Lords, and so on to the pinnacle?

参照

• “semper-annual a.” defined as a derived term of the prefix “‖semper-”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]