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A birthday so good you only get to brag about it once a century.
means A hundredth anniversary, or the celebration marking it.
from Built in the 1800s from Latin 'centenarius', meaning 'containing a hundred', itself rooted in 'centum', the Latin word for 'hundred' — the same root that gives us 'century' and 'cent'.
- origin
- from Latin centum, meaning one hundred
- usage
- Brits say centenary, Americans say centennial
- related
- bicentenary doubles it, sesquicentennial splits the difference
- rarity
- most institutions never live long enough to have one