tercentennial

Three centuries commemorated

A tercentennial is a three-hundredth anniversary or its celebration: The university marked its tercentennial with a year of special events.

As an adjective, it describes things relating to such an anniversary: tercentennial commemorations.

The word follows the pattern of bicentennial (two hundred years) and sesquicentennial (one hundred fifty).

celebration

gala

Festive formal occasion

jubilee · festivities · banquet · pageant · fanfare · fireworks · speeches · proclamation · unveiling · dedication

anniversary

tricentenary

300th anniversary celebration

jubilee

history

founding

Creating an organization originally

chronicles · archives · timeline · ancestors · predecessors · evolution · milestones · traditions · documentary · retrospective

institutions

university

Higher education institution

  • cityLarge populated area
  • nationSovereign political entity
  • colonyDependent territorial settlement

settlement · organization · church · township · corporation · charter · establishment · foundation · incorporation · municipality

Opposites
anniversary duration

tercentennialannual

Occurring every year

first anniversary · bicentennial · centennial · semicentennial · golden jubilee

Family

centennial, centenary, bicentennial, bicentenary, tercentenary, bicentennials, quadricentennial

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