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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 669 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CENTENARY (from
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Lat. centenarius, of or belonging to a
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hundred, from centeni, distributive of centum, hundred)  , a space of a
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hundred years, and particularly the celebration of an event on the
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lapse of a hundred years, a centennial anniversary . The word " centennial " (from
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Lat. cent
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ennis, from centum, and annus, a
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year), though usually an
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adjective as in " the Centennial
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State," the name given to
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Colorado on its
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admission to statehood in 1876, is also used as a synonym of
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centenary .

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