tricentennial

Marking three centuries

Tricentennial refers to a three-hundredth anniversary or its celebration: The city planned elaborate tricentennial festivities.

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

The word appears far less often than bicentennial or centennial, since few institutions survive three centuries.

anniversary

tercentenary

300th anniversary milestone

commemoration · founding · establishment · incorporation · charter · landmark · dedication · observance · remembrance

celebration

ceremony

Formal event marking occasions

  • paradeCeremonial public procession
  • galaFestive formal occasion
  • festivalOrganized public celebration

pageant · commemoration · festivities · banquet · fireworks · reenactment · proclamation · unveiling · dedication · tribute

heritage

colonial

Of occupied territories

monument · memorial · archives · artifacts · preservation · restoration · museum · landmark · commemorative · ancestry

Categories
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anniversary interval

tricentennialfirst anniversary

One year commemoration

annual · inaugural · centennial · semicentennial · golden jubilee

recency vs. historical distance

tricentennialfirst anniversary

One year commemoration

opening ceremony · origin · genesis · inception · birth

Family

three, centennial, biennial, millennial, bicentennial, triennial, bicentenary, sesquicentennial, bicentennials

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