(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.
Quinquennial
Definition:
(a.) Occurring once in five years, or at the end of every five years; also, lasting five years. A quinquennial event.
Example Sentences:
(1) With a key quinquennial Communist party congress looming later this year, Chinese officials hoped to use the summit to bolster Xi’s political standing back home.
(2) The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' (IFLA) Biological and Medical Sciences Libraries Section conducts activities along four strands: world and regional health sciences library directories, mutually supportive regional groupings, a quarterly newsletter, and the quinquennial International Congress on Medical Librarianship.
(3) Our next quinquennial plan for transplantation studies extends MPI to corneal and unrelated marrow transplantation.
(4) Assuming no demented patients younger than 29 years, the incidence rates in the three quinquennial periods for all dements were 79.4, 60.3, and 67.7; for Alzheimer's disease they were 51.9, 40.0, and 47.8.
(5) The author studied demographic data from the U.S., France, Chile, England, and Wales, considering birth rate, mortality, sex ratio and male proportions in quinquennial periods from 1960 to 1977.
(6) When a comparison was made between Victoria, Australia and England and Wales, it was found that between 1939-64 there was a great similarity between percentage distribution of births by quinquennial age groups, a common trend to a greater proportion of births to younger mothers, and a decreasing mean maternal age at birth.
(7) The need within the district each year for coronary angiography seemed to be between 111 and 171 and for surgical revascularisation of the myocardium between 63 and 96 procedures; the first figure is the mean of the second quinquennial period (1984-88) and the second figure the total for 1988.
(8) Behind an overall mortality rate of 0.19 deaths per 1,000 anaesthetics attributable to anaesthesia, lies a 6-fold decrease in the incidence, computed quinquennially, from 0.43 per 1,000 anaesthetics in the first quinquennium to 0.07 per 1,000 anaesthetics in the last.
(9) The two major groupings in the assembly, the centre-right European People's party (EPP) and centre-left Socialists and Democrats (PES) have little purchase on voters who tend, when they vote at all, to use the quinquennial polls as an opportunity to sound off at domestic governments.
(10) The data were analyzed according to the same quinquennial age groups as in the other studies.
(11) The mortality for all types of leukaemia in that period was studied in three aspects: (a) By reviewing the rates of specific mortality for ages under 20 years, at quinquennial intervals and per millions of inhabitants of those ages.
(12) Study of all medical records yielded incidence rates for the quinquennial periods of 1960-1964, 1965-1969, and 1970-1974.
(13) The mean quinquennial death coefficients according to causes and age groups showed a gradual increase with age, more marked from 35 years on for Chapters VII, I and II.
(14) A further two quinquennial surveys took place at 10 of them, thus completing 20 years' observations.
(15) The results of a quinquennial audit of trauma care in the Cambridge Military Hospital using the TRISS method is presented.
(16) Results of the sixth quinquennial survey of the resident population of Glenside Hospital, Bristol, are reported.
(17) For the male birth cohorts aged 30-69 in 1965 in the age range of 40-79, studied by quinquennial calendar time intervals from 1955 to 1985, it was found that, (i) for nonsmokers, the estimated lung cancer mortality rate was comparable to the rates reported in the US or Britain, assigning 20 to 25% proportions of nonsmokers, (ii) for smokers, the estimated duration of smoking was shorter than would be expected from the age when smoking was started according to various epidemiological surveys, and (iii) the estimated average numbers of cigarettes smoked per day by smokers were similar to those obtained by epidemiological studies, when these were estimated by incorporating a part of Doll and Peto's dose-response relationship.