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adjective
1.
pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary: bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
2.
consisting of or lasting 200 years: a bicentennial period.
3.
occurring every 200 years: the bicentennial return of a comet.
noun
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a 200th anniversary: The United States had its bicentennial in 1976.
5.
a celebration of such an anniversary.
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Bicentennial
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- Celebrate the bicentennial of this great expedition by taking a virtual hike along the explorers' route.
- But in this bicentennial year a flood is turning into a torrent.
- The sad bicentennial of a once fabulous sugar colony.
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bicentennial
also, in 19c., bi-centennial; 1843 (adj.), 1871 (noun), Amer.Eng., from bi- + centennial (q.v.). In rivalry with bicentenary (1831) which seems to have been the more common word in Britain.
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