anniversary
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English anniversary, from Medieval Latin anniversāria, anniversārium, from anniversārius, from annus ("year") + versus, past participle of vertere ("to turn").
Pronunciation Nounanniversary (plural anniversaries)
- A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.
- Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.
- (especially) Such a day that commemorates a wedding.
- We are celebrating our tenth anniversary today.
- (loosely) A day subsequent in time to a given event by some significant period other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).
- 2006, DB Schrock, Soulmonger Dot Com, page 28:
- Jonathon proposed to his [Jess's] mom on their three-month anniversary of meeting and married her on their fourth.
- French: anniversaire
- German: Jahrestag
- Italian: anniversario
- Portuguese: aniversário
- Russian: годовщи́на
- Spanish: aniversario
- French: anniversaire de mariage
- German: Hochzeitstag
- Portuguese: aniversário de casamento, bodas
- Russian: юбиле́й
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