(a.) Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.
(n.) The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outside the prefabricated hut that serves as his makeshift office stand crates containing those treasured bottles of soy sauce, including one from a limited edition to mark the firm's bicentenary in 2007.
(2) There is still a sizeable chunk of the world which sees the English as top-hatted toffs who can be cruel to their urchins, so it remains to be seen what they will think after the British Council's celebrations of Charles Dickens' bicentenary.
(3) That's precisely why his legacy has been so disputed, a debate that ought to be engaged in more generally when we come to mark the bicentenary in 2015.
(4) The British Council programme, marking the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, which falls on 7 February 2012, will include film, performance, talks and debates in countries from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe.
(5) Royal Festival Hall, London, 1 and 3 October, southbankcentre.co.uk Les Vêpres Siciliennes The Royal Opera marks the Verdi bicentenary with its first-ever production of his neglected French-language score from the 1850s.
(6) Moore has history with these stories: in 2005, he was appointed as an ambassador for Andersen’s work as part of the bicentenary of the Danish writer’s birth.
(7) And on 30 January 1849, you celebrated the bicentenary of the execution of Charles I with your friend Walter Savage Landor.
(8) This year, which is Wagner's bicentenary, they have given even more than usual.
(9) This year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the publication, by William Withering, of An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medicinal Uses with Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (1).
(10) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whose bicentenary we celebrate this month, changed the face of Britain.
(11) For more information about Dickens's bicentenary, visit the Guardian's dedicated website Charles Dickens at 200 .
(12) With the bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo coming up in June, the temptation may well be to continue down the same road this year: to make a song and dance about how Britain and Germany are really Europe’s “special relationship” after all , and hope that it will encourage Merkel to open the seams of the EU treaties just wide enough for Cameron to sneak through his list of amendments.
(13) Out to mark the bicentenary of Pride and Prejudice (prepare for Austen overload next year), it is already creating a buzz.
(14) This year is the bicentenary of the birth of the distinguished Scottish physician, Sir John Forbes, famous for his translation of the great French medical classic, De L'Auscultation Médiate by R.T.H.
(15) In last year’s extravagant bicentenary celebrations of the Norwegian constitution, the nation’s unity after the attacks was barely mentioned.
(16) Superstitious Mexicans think that the year augurs well: 2010 is the bicentenary of Independence and the centenary of the Revolution.
(17) Instead, cheerfully ignoring the fact that September 1769 was four months late for the birthday, and five years late for the bicentenary in 1764, Garrick organised a three-day event including a temporary theatre seating 1,000 beside the Avon.
(18) Or watching Tony Blair expressing his "deep sorrow for slavery" instead of flat out saying "sorry" as he should have during his speech marking the bicentenary of the end of slavery in Britain?
(19) "Our goals are to continue to develop our artistic programme under Matthew's leadership, to continue with our outreach work, to establish an endowment fun and then to redevelop our historic building after the bicentenary."
(20) Eurosceptics have been particularly enraged by the government's proposals for the commemoration of the centenary of the start of the first world war and the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, where the broad and inclusive attitude of the culture secretary, Maria Miller, has been in strong contrast to the narrow, tub-thumping jingoism of Gove and his allies in their earlier attempts to reframe the teaching of history in our schools.
Bicentennial
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of two hundred years.
(a.) Occurring every two hundred years.
(n.) The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a cool spring day in Bicentennial Park in western Sydney .
(2) It is the bicentennial anniversary of the introduction of digitalis into medicine.
(3) In this Bicentennial year, the author takes a look at the early days of Amercan psychiatry, focusing on some of the great men who helped to form the discipline.
(4) Hopefully America's next bicentennial celebration will reveal a more enlightened attitude and concern for emotionally disturbed children.
(5) A reappraisal is made of Anton von Rosas and his career, on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth.
(6) In this bicentennial year, it seems appropriate that each discipline examine its heritage.
(7) This is exactly the same work that’s done with any other form of crime, of anti-social behaviour.” Radicalisation is too crucial for experts' work to be hijacked for a headline Read more Back at Bicentennial Park, the treasure hunt has become predictably chaotic.
(8) A bicentennial footpath plaque laid by Rolf Harris in his home suburb of Bassendean in Western Australia has been stolen.
(9) Although this is our Bicentennial year, effective measures to insure food safety date back less than a century.
(10) A hundred years from now, at the bicentennial of the Commissioned Corps, the current Surgeon General would like it to be said that the Public Health Service has had "two centuries of service with distinction."
(11) It was William Makepeace Thackeray 's bicentennial last year.
(12) Its aims were to determine baseline compliance rates, to identify subpopulations at risk of poor compliance and to evaluate the impact of the bicentennial measles control campaigns on compliance among children under five years.
(13) Funds for the planning effort were given to the U.S. as a Bicentennial gift from Norway.
(14) Overnight recumbent atrial natriuretic peptide levels were significantly elevated in all ten subjects of the Australian Bicentennial Mount Everest Expedition during the first week at 5400 m, during acclimatization.
(15) During this bicentennial year it is worthwhile to review the history of children who have suffered from mental illness during the course of America's movement from a small colony to a major "superpower."
(16) It would be malpractice not to.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Clinton joins Hillary and their daughter Chelsea at the Foundry United Methodist church’s Bicentennial Homecoming Celebration in Washington on Sunday.
(17) From every comedian here at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we salute him & we say goodbye August 11, 2014 Chris Columbus, director of Mrs Doubtfire and Bicentennial Man, issued a statement about Williams’s death.
(18) Uretero-ileocecocysto-urethroplasties have not been successful in our hands, but the other procedures certainly offer a preferable alternative to the treatment modalities in use up to only 4 years before this bicentennial year!
(19) (If you're interested, and no one is, their bicentennials are 2003 and 2028).