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quinquennial

adj
/kwɪŋˈkwɛ.ni.əl/

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).

  1. borrowed from quīnquenniālis

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. Synonym of quinquennium, a five-year period.

  3. A 5th anniversary, particularly

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA