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triennial

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tri·en·ni·al  (tr-n-l)
adj.
1. Occurring every third year.
2. Lasting three years.
n.
1. A third anniversary.
2. A ceremony or celebration occurring every three years.
[From Latin triennis, from triennium, triennium; see triennium.]
tri·enni·al·ly adv.
triennial
Adjective
occurring every three years [tri- + Latin annus year]
triennially adv
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Noun1.triennial - the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
tercentenary, tercentennial
anniversary, day of remembrance - the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)
Adj.1.triennial - occurring every third year or lasting 3 years
periodic, periodical - happening or recurring at regular intervals; "the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust"


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By another statute, which passed a few years later in the same reign, the term "frequently," which had alluded to the triennial period settled in the time of Charles II, is reduced to a precise meaning, it being expressly enacted that a new parliament shall be called within three years after the termination of the former.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
It is recorded that during that triennial agitation no less than twenty-three Circles perished in domestic discord.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
All this activity had not caused Ruskin altogether to abandon the teaching of art to the members of the more well-to-do classes, and beginning in 1870 he held for three or four triennial terms the newly-established professorship of Art at Oxford and gave to it much hard labor.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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