Meaning

1 senses

  1. (obsolete)To celebrate the centennial of.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. We celebrated the centenary anniversary day.

    ruМы праздновали столетие. — corvard

    deWir haben den hundertsten Jahrestag gefeiert. — Vortarulo

    auxitt · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. The children commemorate the centenary of the armistice.

    tjwhale · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. They burned centenary olive trees.

    Aghanim · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Origin

From Latin centēnārius (“containing 100; local official overseeing a hundred”), either dir

From Latin centēnārius (“containing 100; local official overseeing a hundred”), either directly or through French centenaire from centēnī (“100 each”) + -ārius (-ary), from centum (“hundred”). Doublet of centner, kantar, and quintal.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

centenaries, centenarying, centenaried, centenaried
Base formcentenary · to centenary
3rd person singularcentenaries
Present participlecentenarying
Past simplecentenaried
Past participlecentenaried

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycentenary
he, she, itcentenaries

Past simpleLesson

all personscentenaried

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave centenaried
he, she, ithas centenaried

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill centenary

Word family

1 related words
RelatedfrequencyB1

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
centA2centaurcentenariancentennialcenterA2
centenary — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto