| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| sexcentenary |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sex·cen·te·nar·y |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s k-sn t -nr  , sksn-tn-r |
| ADJECTIVE: | Relating to 600 or to a 600-year period. | | NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. sex·cen·te·nar·ies
A 600th anniversary or its commemoration. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Latin sexcentn , six hundred each : sex, six; see sex– + centn, a hundred each (from centum, hundred; see dek in Appendix I).
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