(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.
Triennial
Definition:
(a.) Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign.
(a.) Happening, coming about, or appearing once in every three years; as, triennial elections; a triennial catalogue; a triennial visitation.
(n.) Something which takes place or appears once in three years.
Example Sentences:
(1) The review also draws on data on maternal deaths, collated on a triennial basis and published by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
(2) However, in the coming months the company and pension trustees will receive a triennial valuation for the deficit, as at April 2010, carried out on a stricter, actuarial measure of assets and liabilities.
(3) The BHS fund, which has been widely reported to be in deficit to the tune of £100m, is scheduled for its triennial valuation at the end of this month.
(4) A description is given of a triennial investigation of hearing threshold carried out among 163 male adolescents whose mean age was 17 years at the first (1977) and 23 years at the last investigation (1983).
(5) Statistical models indicate triennial testing may deliver almost all of the effectiveness of annual testing at a substantially reduced cost, but the numerous reports of false-negative results argue strongly in favour of annual screening.
(6) However, on Tuesday – the last day of the triennial conference – some members stood up to say their ballot had not been recorded during voting late on Monday, when the resolution failed to pass by a single vote.
(7) As a result, lack of confidence is potentially holding the UK back from performing better in international league tables such as the OECD’s triennial Pisa tests.
(8) Triennial screening reduced mortality from cervical cancer among the elderly by 74% at a cost of $2254 per year of life saved.
(9) The prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes was investigated by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method in cytologically normal and abnormal cervical scrapes obtained from asymptomatic women (n = 1,346), participating in a triennial screening program for cervical cancer, and from a gynecological outpatient population (n = 593).
(10) Evaluation of MS temporal trends showed a significant increase in MS incidence during the study period: values ranged around two per 100,000 in the triennial periods 1965-1967, 1968-1970, and 1971-1973, and around five in each triennium from 1977 onward.
(11) On the day the MP for Clacton defects to Ukip ( Defection to Ukip puts pressure on Cameron , 29 August), the third Folkestone Triennial opens ( A nugget and spade resort?
(12) As triennial school psychological evaluations typically contain tests which have been administered previously, e.g., WISC-R, WRAT-R, we suggest that psychologists use caution when using Form M to test or retest the receptive vocabulary of emotionally handicapped or disturbed middle-school-age children.
(13) The triennial results from the Programme for International Assessment (Pisa), due on Tuesday but trailed in the Sunday press , have become education's equivalent of the football World Cup.
(14) Full triennial accreditation surveys were conducted by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in 1,628 of these institutions in 1986.
(15) The first group consisted of 143 consecutive samples from women with no cytological abnormalities who participated in a triennial screening program to prevent cervical cancer.
(16) For Biggs, the work, one of more than 20 commissions for the contemporary art triennial, now in its third year, has a far deeper resonance.
(17) The triennial valuation of the BHS pension scheme is being conducted with the results expected before 30 June.
(18) This could show a considerably worse funding hole compared with the last triennial valuation, conducted in April 2007.
(19) The pension fund had a deficit of £207m at the time of the last published accounts, although a triennial valuation scheduled to be completed by the end of June is expected to show it is now significantly more than this.
(20) The data are taken from the triennial New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey.