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If annual means one year, is there any word for two,three, four.. year...like Olympic Games or World Cup. Is there a word to describe their periodical characteristic or just simply "every 4 year"? There are words like Annual, Biennial, Triennial (every 1, 2, 3 years) but Quadennial seems not to be a valid word.
From WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc. I understand that it's surely not exhaustively
Is there a similar term for an event that recurs every 3 months? (I'm guessing that "semi-semi-annually" isn't the correct answer.) More importantly, is there a resource or table somewhere that I can use in the future to construct prefixes for other intervals shorter than a year?
5. Four years [ are / is ] a long time to spend away from family and friends. You have several things happening here: The main clause is a copular clause. A subject that is realized by a measure phrase ("Four years"). A predicative complement (PC) that is a singular noun phrase ("a long time . . ."). Copular clauses seem to have their own rules ...
There is a difference between a duration period of three months as in "trimester" and an event occurring every 3 months as in "quarterly". In the same vein you would have a quadrimester or tri-annually(which means three times a year; not every 3 months) both being correct in the right context.
ocurring every year and a half. Etymology: semi ("half") + que ("and") I cannot find a dictionary definition of this other than Wiktionary, and 0 hits on Google NGram. But there are some examples of usage here. FAME now has responsibility for the sesquiennial (every 18 months) Music Festivals which attract players from Europe, American continent
The OED records the adjective triannual as obsolete, but gives it both as ‘occurring every three years’ and ‘occurring thrice a year’. It gives the adjective ‘triennial’ as ‘existing or lasting for three years’ and ‘recurring every three years’. –
is almost never used; one would assume that every 4th month of the year, so that would be in April each year. However, a more common way to say that would be. every year in April. You might misheard the latter option, and it could be. every 4th of the month. instead. That just means every 4th day of the month, so January 4th, February 4th ...
Longman’s biennial: a biennial event happens once every two years; a biennial plant stays alive for two years. Oxford’s biennial: Taking place every other year. Longman’s perennial: continuing or existing for a long time, or happening again and again; a plant that is perennial lives for more than two years.
10. Per Google, bifortnightly and bi-fortnightly together have been used about 5000 times on the web, frequently as objects of ridicule rather than as serious terms for "four-week-ly", occasionally as examples of misunderstanding of whether bi is a multiplier or a divider. Although the lunar cycle is often thought of as 28 days, lunarly doesn't ...