Here’s an adjective that is not used often. It is used to describe something that happens every other year (every two years).
This adjective is sometimes confused with biannual which means ‘twice a year’.
Example sentences:
- If you would like to have a garden full of flowers every Spring, do not choose biennial plants.
- This biennial music festival will be held again in 2023.
- This biennial meeting is held every first Monday of August on even-numbered years.
- To ease planning, the school budget is reviewed on a biennial basis.
Related words following the same concept are:
- bimonthly : occurring every two months
- biweekly : occurring every two weeks
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