(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(2) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(3) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
(4) By way of encouragement we've got 10 copies of Faber's smart new anniversary edition to give away.
(5) Amid Republican disarray, Democrats on Wednesday marked the seventh anniversary of the Affordable Care Act on the East Steps of the Capitol.
(6) In 1990 we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the nurse practitioner (NP) movement.
(7) As the last two people executed in Britain, the macabre anniversary of their deaths at Strangeways prison in Manchester and Walton prison in Liverpool is generating more publicity than their crime and punishment ever did at the time.
(8) I say ‘fuck sorry.’” Rudd, who addressed a breakfast in Sydney to mark the anniversary, said words must be followed up with actions.
(9) There was a certain amount of atmosphere too, thanks mostly to the West Ham fans keeping up a persistent din and celebrating the 15th anniversary of Roy Keane’s prawn sandwich remarks by noting the reserve of the home support.
(10) On the milestone 25th anniversary, Tiananmen is more important than ever.
(11) Were a second general election held on Thursday – the first anniversary of Theresa May’s appointment as prime minister – Corbyn’s chances would be excellent.
(12) The country’s vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, was due to visit Chibok for the anniversary, said Yakubu Nkeki, the leader of a support group of parents of the kidnapped girls.
(13) Saturday 29 May marked the 40th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act.
(14) Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong called the snap election more than a year early in the hope of riding a wave of national pride following the country’s recent 50th anniversary.
(15) NWR may be celebrating its ruby anniversary but will an organisation born to alleviate the lot of the housewife survive to drink to its golden when, politically and personally, she is apparently dead and buried?
(16) The official guest list for Friday’s anniversary event included senior government, party and military officials, but not Kim, whose weight gain in recent months has been blamed on a liking for rich food and attempts to strengthen his physical resemblance to his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung.
(17) A flypast of second world war aircraft has taken place over London to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
(18) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
(19) This anniversary offers the opportunity to the authors to recall that it is most desirable, before operating, that theoretical modifications of the size of retinian pictures should be considered, according to the selected compensatory method, especially in the case of anisometropia or unilateral aphakia.
(20) Almost 300 survivors of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz gather on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of their liberation, in what for many will be the last such commemoration.
Bicentenary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.
(n.) The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outside the prefabricated hut that serves as his makeshift office stand crates containing those treasured bottles of soy sauce, including one from a limited edition to mark the firm's bicentenary in 2007.
(2) There is still a sizeable chunk of the world which sees the English as top-hatted toffs who can be cruel to their urchins, so it remains to be seen what they will think after the British Council's celebrations of Charles Dickens' bicentenary.
(3) That's precisely why his legacy has been so disputed, a debate that ought to be engaged in more generally when we come to mark the bicentenary in 2015.
(4) The British Council programme, marking the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, which falls on 7 February 2012, will include film, performance, talks and debates in countries from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe.
(5) Royal Festival Hall, London, 1 and 3 October, southbankcentre.co.uk Les Vêpres Siciliennes The Royal Opera marks the Verdi bicentenary with its first-ever production of his neglected French-language score from the 1850s.
(6) Moore has history with these stories: in 2005, he was appointed as an ambassador for Andersen’s work as part of the bicentenary of the Danish writer’s birth.
(7) And on 30 January 1849, you celebrated the bicentenary of the execution of Charles I with your friend Walter Savage Landor.
(8) This year, which is Wagner's bicentenary, they have given even more than usual.
(9) This year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the publication, by William Withering, of An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medicinal Uses with Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (1).
(10) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whose bicentenary we celebrate this month, changed the face of Britain.
(11) For more information about Dickens's bicentenary, visit the Guardian's dedicated website Charles Dickens at 200 .
(12) With the bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo coming up in June, the temptation may well be to continue down the same road this year: to make a song and dance about how Britain and Germany are really Europe’s “special relationship” after all , and hope that it will encourage Merkel to open the seams of the EU treaties just wide enough for Cameron to sneak through his list of amendments.
(13) Out to mark the bicentenary of Pride and Prejudice (prepare for Austen overload next year), it is already creating a buzz.
(14) This year is the bicentenary of the birth of the distinguished Scottish physician, Sir John Forbes, famous for his translation of the great French medical classic, De L'Auscultation Médiate by R.T.H.
(15) In last year’s extravagant bicentenary celebrations of the Norwegian constitution, the nation’s unity after the attacks was barely mentioned.
(16) Superstitious Mexicans think that the year augurs well: 2010 is the bicentenary of Independence and the centenary of the Revolution.
(17) Instead, cheerfully ignoring the fact that September 1769 was four months late for the birthday, and five years late for the bicentenary in 1764, Garrick organised a three-day event including a temporary theatre seating 1,000 beside the Avon.
(18) Or watching Tony Blair expressing his "deep sorrow for slavery" instead of flat out saying "sorry" as he should have during his speech marking the bicentenary of the end of slavery in Britain?
(19) "Our goals are to continue to develop our artistic programme under Matthew's leadership, to continue with our outreach work, to establish an endowment fun and then to redevelop our historic building after the bicentenary."
(20) Eurosceptics have been particularly enraged by the government's proposals for the commemoration of the centenary of the start of the first world war and the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, where the broad and inclusive attitude of the culture secretary, Maria Miller, has been in strong contrast to the narrow, tub-thumping jingoism of Gove and his allies in their earlier attempts to reframe the teaching of history in our schools.