(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.
Bicentennial
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of two hundred years.
(a.) Occurring every two hundred years.
(n.) The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a cool spring day in Bicentennial Park in western Sydney .
(2) It is the bicentennial anniversary of the introduction of digitalis into medicine.
(3) In this Bicentennial year, the author takes a look at the early days of Amercan psychiatry, focusing on some of the great men who helped to form the discipline.
(4) Hopefully America's next bicentennial celebration will reveal a more enlightened attitude and concern for emotionally disturbed children.
(5) A reappraisal is made of Anton von Rosas and his career, on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth.
(6) In this bicentennial year, it seems appropriate that each discipline examine its heritage.
(7) This is exactly the same work that’s done with any other form of crime, of anti-social behaviour.” Radicalisation is too crucial for experts' work to be hijacked for a headline Read more Back at Bicentennial Park, the treasure hunt has become predictably chaotic.
(8) A bicentennial footpath plaque laid by Rolf Harris in his home suburb of Bassendean in Western Australia has been stolen.
(9) Although this is our Bicentennial year, effective measures to insure food safety date back less than a century.
(10) A hundred years from now, at the bicentennial of the Commissioned Corps, the current Surgeon General would like it to be said that the Public Health Service has had "two centuries of service with distinction."
(11) It was William Makepeace Thackeray 's bicentennial last year.
(12) Its aims were to determine baseline compliance rates, to identify subpopulations at risk of poor compliance and to evaluate the impact of the bicentennial measles control campaigns on compliance among children under five years.
(13) Funds for the planning effort were given to the U.S. as a Bicentennial gift from Norway.
(14) Overnight recumbent atrial natriuretic peptide levels were significantly elevated in all ten subjects of the Australian Bicentennial Mount Everest Expedition during the first week at 5400 m, during acclimatization.
(15) During this bicentennial year it is worthwhile to review the history of children who have suffered from mental illness during the course of America's movement from a small colony to a major "superpower."
(16) It would be malpractice not to.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Clinton joins Hillary and their daughter Chelsea at the Foundry United Methodist church’s Bicentennial Homecoming Celebration in Washington on Sunday.
(17) From every comedian here at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we salute him & we say goodbye August 11, 2014 Chris Columbus, director of Mrs Doubtfire and Bicentennial Man, issued a statement about Williams’s death.
(18) Uretero-ileocecocysto-urethroplasties have not been successful in our hands, but the other procedures certainly offer a preferable alternative to the treatment modalities in use up to only 4 years before this bicentennial year!
(19) (If you're interested, and no one is, their bicentennials are 2003 and 2028).