Anniversary
[ænɪ'vɜːs(ə)rɪ] or [,ænɪ'vɝsəri]
Definition
(noun.) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it).
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Definition
(a.) Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast.
(n.) The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
(n.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.
(n.) The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Yearly (in the sense of returning with the year), annual.
Editor: Mervin
Definition
adj. returning or happening every year: annual.—n. the day of the year on which an event happened or is celebrated: the celebration proper to such esp. a mass or religious service.
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Examples
- The next day is an anniversary in his life: let it be done then. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The evening came, and Eustacia was still seemingly unconscious of the anniversary. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Is it a birthday, anniversary, or anything? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Then the telephone company gave me a dinner, and the engineers of France; and I attended the dinner celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of photography. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- We celebrated a lady's birthday anniversary with toasts, speeches, a poem, and so forth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Well, dear Pa,' said Bella, 'the anniversary may be considered over. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On the twelfth anniversary of my wedding-day, I became the wife of Professor Dingo. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY I PASS over all that happened at school, until the anniversary of my birthday came round in March. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They celebrate the anniversaries of Chapultepec and Molino del Rey as of very great victories. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The anniversaries are recognized as national holidays. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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