anniversary
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
anniversary (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).
- 1984, ‘Never Mind the Tranquil Facade’, Time, 27 Feb 1984:
- The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores to power.
- 2002, ‘Politics this Week’, The Economist, 14 Mar 2002:
- In a thinly veiled threat to Saddam Hussein, President George Bush marked the six-month anniversary of September 11th by reiterating America's commitment to prevent rogue countries obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
- 1984, ‘Never Mind the Tranquil Facade’, Time, 27 Feb 1984:
- 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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