The adjective "biennial" means done or occurring every 2 years. (biannual means twice a year)
Biennial is every two years.
Biennial
It is spelled right (biennial) and means something that happens every two years. Example- a flower blooming every two years.
Biennial is a word describing an event that happens every two years.
Do you mean bi-monthly? In which case, this would be referring to something that happens twice a month, usually once every two weeks.
Biannual (and semi-annual) means `twice a year' (i.e., six monthly) whereas biennial means `every two years' (i.e., every 24 months). Both are best avoided for the sake of clarity. According to Merriam-Webster, biannual can take both meanings: semiannual or biennial
Something that occurs TWICE a month is called SEMI monthly (semi=half) and something that occurs every TWO months is called BI-Monthly (BI=TWO)
Biennial or biannual can refer to something which happens every two years.
Quinquennial = something that happens every 5 years. Lustral = also something that happens every 5 years or we could invent: semi-Decennial: where semi is half and Deccennial happens every 10 years.
It is spelled right (biennial) and means something that happens every two years. Example- a flower blooming every two years.
Something which happens every second year is termed biennial
bicentennial means when something happens twice in a year, or once every two years
the Olympics
Your mom happens every two years. U.S. Senators are elected to serve terms of 6 years and terms are staggered so that about 1/3 of the Senate seats are up for election every two years.
The word "biennial" means an event that either lasts for two years, or it happens every two years.
For example, something that happened in 1400, 1600 and 1800 happened every two hundred years.
True.
Biannual
Bi-monthly means every two months. (Semi-monthly means twice a month). There may be cases where these terms are misused, so be careful.