Meaning of anniversary | Babel Free

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1. 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
2. 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.
3. Such a day that commemorates a wedding
4. the day of the year on which something once happened and is remembered. We celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. herdenking ذِكْرى سَنَوِيَّه годишнина aniversário výročí der Jahrestag årsdag επέτειοςaniversario aastapäev سالروز vuosipäivä anniversaire יוֹם הַשָׁנָה वर्षगांठ godišnjica évforduló hari ulang tahun afmæli anniversario 記念日 기념일 metinės gadadiena ulang tahun verjaardagårsdag; fødselsdagrocznica کالیزه ،کلنی aniversário aniver­sare годовщина výročie obletnica godišnjica årsdag ว...
5. Such a day that commemorates a wedding.
   especially
6. 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)
7. The annually recurring date of a past event, as of personal or historical importance: a wedding anniversary; the anniversary of the founding of Rome.
8. 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).
   broadly
9. A date that follows a certain event by a specified amount of time: his six-month anniversary of quitting smoking.
10. An event at which an anniversary is celebrated.
11. the date on which an event occurred in some previous year: a wedding anniversary.
12. the celebration of this
13. of or relating to an anniversary
14. recurring every year, esp on the same date
15. the yearly recurrence of the date of a past event.
16. the celebration or commemoration of such a date.

Equivalents

Examples

“Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.”

“We are celebrating our tenth anniversary today.”

“The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores to power.”

“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.”

“Jonathon proposed to his [Jess's] mom on their three-month anniversary of meeting and married her on their fourth.”

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