Usually means: One hundredth anniversaries of events.
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  1. centenaries: Merriam-Webster
  2. centenaries: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. centenaries: Collins English Dictionary
  4. centenaries: Vocabulary.com
  5. centenaries: Wordnik
  6. centenaries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. centenaries: Wiktionary
  8. Centenaries, centenaries: Dictionary.com
  9. Centenaries: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Centenaries: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. centenaries: FreeDictionary.org
  12. centenaries: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See centenary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (centenary)

adjective:  Of or related to the number one hundred, particularly
adjective:  Occurring every 100 years.
adjective:  Lasting or aged 100 years, 100-year-old.
adjective:  (historical, obsolete) Of or relating to hundreds, the administrative unit.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of centurion: An officer commanding 100 men, especially (historical) in the Roman army.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of century: a period of 100 years.
noun:  Synonym of centennial: a hundredth anniversary.
noun:  (uncommon) Synonym of hundredweight, especially (historical) in Greek and Roman contexts.
noun:  (historical) Synonym of centgrave: a position in the Frankish Empire overseeing local administration.
noun:  (historical) Synonym of hundredman: a position in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms overseeing local administration.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of hundred: a collection of 100 things.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) Synonym of centenarian: a person 100 or more years old.
verb:  (ambitransitive, obsolete) To celebrate the centennial of.
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