An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
QUADRENNIAL
Etymology
Adjective
quadrennial (not comparable)
Happening every four years.
Lasting for four years.
Noun
quadrennial (plural quadrennials)
A four-year period, a quadrennium.
Source: Wiktionary
Quad*ren"ni*al, a. Etym: [L. quadriennium a space of four years; quattuor four + annus year; cf. L. quadriennis. See Quadrate, and Annual.]
1. Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.
2. Occurring once in four years, or at the end of every four years; as, quadrennial games.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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