(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.
Birthday
Definition:
(n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
(n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite tthree resignations and his reputation as a tribal operator in the Blair-Brown wars, however, his belief in the party he joined on his 15th birthday is undimmed.
(2) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
(3) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ramzan Kadyrov is joined by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank at his birthday party in Grozny in 2011.
(5) Later in the day, both presidents joined Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton at another Democratic luminary’s birthday party.
(6) We’ve seen a few instances recently of individuals crossing the line with their database use … looking up addresses in order to send birthday cards, checking passport details to organise personal travel, checking details of family members for personal convenience,” it says.
(7) Finicum, who was killed one day before his 55th birthday, grew up in Page, Arizona, and was an active member of the Mormon church.
(8) Now two years old, the Cameron government's reform plan for Whitehall won't reach its third birthday.
(9) By now, some MPs loyal to Corbyn had got wind of a plot to topple him that was more serious than the Hodge and Coffey no-confidence vote, with one claiming there was a Whatsapp messaging conversation among frontbenchers known as the Birthday Group.
(10) Angela Merkel , who turns 60 on Thursday, thanked a German reporter who sang the traditional birthday song at a news conference in Brussels, and revealed that other leaders had given her flowers.
(11) For her two-year-old’s birthday, a swimming trip and family lunch was planned and yet friends would ask, “Aren’t you doing anything to celebrate?” As India’s commercial capital, Mumbai has long been home to some of the richest people on the subcontinent.
(12) The game was one of many celebrations around the country as Russia was gripped with Putin birthday mania on Wednesday.
(13) Five-part drama Collision was one of several successes last year, and ITV1 was named channel of the year last night, the day after Crozier's 46th birthday.
(14) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
(15) Eventually the government announced its intention to launch the scheme, which prompted them to make the switch from oil exactly a year ago, for Tony's 70th birthday.
(16) To celebrate its eighth birthday, Twitter is offering each user a respite from @Jack, and the ability to go back in time and read their own first tweet.
(17) The implication was that splashing out on a decent birthday present for your partner or having the family over for Christmas lunch could affect your chances of getting a mortgage.
(18) On Thursday afternoon, an events organiser for Mumbai’s wealthiest told me stories of children’s birthday parties in which a Bollywood celebrity was hired at huge expense to sing and dance – for a group of eight-year-olds.
(19) Forsyth said that while more children survived past their fifth birthday and attended school at the end of the 2000s than a decade before, a rise in acute malnutrition could undermine those unprecedented gains.
(20) The mean selenium level in the hair of calves which subsequently died at less than six weeks of age did not differ from selenium levels in the hair of calves matched by farm and birthday (overall mean 0.28 ppm).