Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring every six years.
- adjective Relating to or lasting six years.
- noun An event that occurs every six years.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lasting
six years. - adjective Happening once in six years.
- noun A sexennial event.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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She wants to represent the Republicans in their sexennial bid to replace U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.
Michael Sigman: Let Corporations Be (Just) Corporations 2009
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There are the following quadrennial festivals: first that of Delos (where there is also a sexennial festival), secondly the Brauronia, thirdly the Heracleia, fourthly the Eleusinia, and fifthly the Panathenaea; and no two of these are celebrated in the same place.
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There are the following quadrennial festivals: first that of Delos (where there is also a sexennial festival), secondly the Brauronia, thirdly the Heracleia, fourthly the Eleusinia, and fifthly the Panathenaea; and no two of these are celebrated in the same place.
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There are the following quadrennial festivals: first that of Delos (where there is also a sexennial festival), secondly the Brauronia, thirdly the Heracleia, fourthly the Eleusinia, and fifthly the Panathenaea; and no two of these are celebrated in the same place.
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The parliaments were not wholly free from faction, I admit; but this evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself, as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.
Paras. 325-349 1909
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There are the following quadrennial festivals: first that of Delos (where there is also a sexennial festival), secondly the Brauronia, thirdly the Heracleia, fourthly the Eleusinia, and fifthly the Panathenaea; and no two of these are celebrated in the same place.
The Athenian Constitution 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1907
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The parliaments were not wholly free from faction, I admit; but this evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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In January, notices were mailed to property owners alerting them to new official valuations set during the auditor's sexennial reappraisal.
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In January, notices were mailed to property owners alerting them to new official valuations set during the auditor's sexennial reappraisal.
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There are the following quadrennial festivals: first that of Delos (where there is also a sexennial festival), secondly the Brauronia, thirdly the Heracleia, fourthly the Eleusinia, and fifthly the Panathenaea; and no two of these are celebrated in the same place.
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