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SESQUICENTENNIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sesquicentennial mean? 

SESQUICENTENNIAL (noun)
  The noun SESQUICENTENNIAL has 1 sense:

1. the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it)play

  Familiarity information: SESQUICENTENNIAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SESQUICENTENNIAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("sesquicentennial" is a kind of...):

anniversary; day of remembrance (the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it))


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