quinquennial
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Definition of quinquennial
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of or related to a five-year period.
“By a singular coincidence, the great master of the Dorian lyre was born during the celebration of the Pythia, the quinquennial festival of Apollo[…]”
“The best data that BEA have come from the quinquennial censuses of business; these are used to “benchmark” the national accounts every five years and to compute new input-output tables.”
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adj
-
Of or related to a five-year period.
“By a singular coincidence, the great master of the Dorian lyre was born during the celebration of the Pythia, the quinquennial festival of Apollo[…]”
“The best data that BEA have come from the quinquennial censuses of business; these are used to “benchmark” the national accounts every five years and to compute new input-output tables.”
noun
- Synonym of quinquennium, a five-year period.
- A 5th anniversary, particularly
- (historical)A 5th anniversary, particularly
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quīnquenniālis, from quīnquennium (“5-year period”) + -ālis, from quīnquennis (“5-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from quīnque (“five”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).
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