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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

창립 100주년

Pronunciation / Transliteration: changnip baek-junyeon

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Centenary/ˈsɛn.tɪ.nər.i/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"우리 회사는 올해 창립 100주년을 맞이했습니다."

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', meaning 'containing a hundred', stemming from 'centum' (hundred). It entered the English language in the late 16th century, initially functioning as an adjective and later as a noun denoting a hundredth anniversary or a period of one hundred years.

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