🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Hundertjahrfeier

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈhʊndɐtˌjaːɐ̯ˌfaɪ.ɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Centenary/ˈsɛn.tə.nər.i/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Stadt feiert heute ihr großes Jubiläum als Hundertjahrfeier."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The hundredth anniversary of a significant event or the celebration of it.

    "The city is preparing grand festivities for its official centenary next month."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Pertaining to or lasting for a period of one hundred years.

    "The botanists marveled at the rare blossoming of the centenary plant."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'centenarius' (containing a hundred, pertaining to a hundred), formed from 'centum' meaning 'hundred' combined with the suffix '-arius'. Entering Middle English via Latin during the 15th century, the term originally referred to an aggregate of a hundred units or a Roman military commander of a centurion-like group before evolving to designate a hundredth anniversary or a century-long period.

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