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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
birthday
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a birthday gift
▪ The camera had been a 21st birthday gift from his parents.
a birthday party
▪ They met at her sister’s 18th birthday party.
a birthday present
▪ Thanks for the birthday present.
a birthday/anniversary celebration
▪ He is planning a very special 40th birthday celebration.
▪ It was the college’s 150th anniversary celebration last night.
a birthday/Christmas/wedding cake (=a special cake for a birthday etc)
▪ Lucy had twelve candles on her birthday cake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
happy
▪ I always regarded that as my Birthday present, of course my happy birthday only lasted about anther hour.
▪ But the man himself was still standing, swinging happy birthday to himself.
▪ And, happy birthday Mr Boulting.
▪ So happy birthday to the lion as winter nears.
▪ She says she can't give him cards or wish him happy birthday and it's sad.
▪ So. Happy birthday, my sweet.
▪ And have a very very happy birthday, birthday bear.
■ NOUN
boy
▪ Also celebrating today is birthday boy Nathan Buckingham.
▪ At some point in the evening, we all moved into the living room where the birthday boy opened his presents.
▪ But good news for birthday boys and girls - the popular Birthday File will still appear from time to time.
▪ After a while, the birthday boy or girl is summoned for a private audience with the Great Mouse himself.
▪ And of course the birthday boy should always get the biggest slice of cake.
▪ But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night.
▪ First, however, we had to let the birthday boy have his fling.
cake
▪ A break-in at a house in Emley Moor Road resulted in a birthday cake being stolen.
▪ The Poole family, grouped rather self-consciously round the birthday cake on Earth, lapsed into a sudden silence.
▪ Caterers from Lexington were providing a banquet, and the local bakery had designed a huge oval birthday cake.
▪ Were birthday cakes, wishbones, wells and fountains, or churches better than or equal to stars?
▪ A willingness to learn and perseverance are much more important than candles on a birthday cake.
▪ Vivid memories of her childhood holidays go on and on about birthday cakes, pumpkin pies, fruitcakes, and homemade candy.
▪ Make more loops around the birthday cake and the base of the cake.
▪ Some of the world's most beautiful women have also cut more birthday cakes than Clinton.
card
▪ Would a line in positive birthday cards sell?
▪ I liked thinking about him and his two daughters, about the birthday cards and telephone calls.
▪ Little girls love flowers just as much as big girls, and you can make an excellent birthday card for a child.
▪ Mr Haq was open for newspapers, for cigarette papers, for birthday cards and diet Cokes.
▪ In addition to the parcels were seven birthday cards.
▪ Herself handing over the tickets and the hotel reservations tucked into one of those extra-large birthday cards.
▪ Thora keeps all the birthday cards she receives.
▪ Then she realized that books were really only a sideline to his stationery business; he sold more birthday cards than books.
cards
▪ Would a line in positive birthday cards sell?
▪ I liked thinking about him and his two daughters, about the birthday cards and telephone calls.
▪ Mr Haq was open for newspapers, for cigarette papers, for birthday cards and diet Cokes.
▪ In addition to the parcels were seven birthday cards.
▪ Herself handing over the tickets and the hotel reservations tucked into one of those extra-large birthday cards.
▪ Thora keeps all the birthday cards she receives.
▪ Then she realized that books were really only a sideline to his stationery business; he sold more birthday cards than books.
▪ The postman usually delivered bills, not birthday cards!
celebration
▪ But Kiwomya had the last word, capitalising on a slice of good fortune to make his birthday celebrations complete.
▪ This Sunday afternoon in late summer, I accompany my parents to Mr Berzins's ninetieth birthday celebration.
▪ Teenager Jamie Pollock hopes to start off week-end birthday celebrations with a win.
▪ But they've a rather shorter run planned this birthday celebration.
gift
▪ And there, framed in the open left-hand doorway of the stalls, was the T'ang's birthday gift to his son.
▪ Joan has also 194 established policies for buying birthday gifts and so forth.
▪ You can do one of two things when it comes to your subsequent birthday gifts.
▪ I spent a half-hour recently putting together the ultimate birthday gift for my 5-year-old niece.
girl
▪ Next up we would like to wish birthday girl Fiona many happy returns.
▪ Some one else had taken Gabby home around two, and Zack had promised to drive the birthday girl home himself.
greeting
▪ The members wanted to visit the lady to pass on birthday greetings.
▪ These days they hung on for their hundred-year-old birthday greetings from the White House.
party
▪ So this was what a birthday party was like.
▪ Olivia, rem ember your fiftieth birthday party?
▪ I would have to have my tenth birthday party in the rumpus-room with the girls.
▪ After Jasper died, Abigail told me what he said to her at a birthday party he gave me.
▪ Just a few weeks ago, Sefton was enjoying his thirtieth birthday party.
▪ The birthday party is, appropriately, in Philadelphia.
▪ Other opportunities Tea parties - birthday parties in particular.
▪ In all its inanity, another birthday party for another young acquaintance.
present
▪ She remembered shopping with her father in that shop for a twenty-first birthday present.
▪ Suppose your favorite uncle proudly tells you that your birthday present is a subscription to the Salmon of the Month Club.
▪ She had made up her mind that her delayed birthday present to her daughter was to be a proper, shop-bought frock.
▪ The numbers contain a second birthday present.
▪ And it was a birthday present.
▪ In the other are his birthday presents.
▪ Bottom: A beastly birthday present!
▪ He watched her shop for his birthday present.
suit
▪ Some wore swimsuits, others used birthday suits.
■ VERB
celebrate
▪ Make a note in your new Letts/CAMRA diary and come and help celebrate our 21st birthday.
▪ Meanwhile, in May, Darlington Camra will be celebrating its tenth birthday.
▪ Read in studio Welcome back: Next year the Gloucestershire Regiment celebrates its three hundredth birthday.
▪ It is five years since the settlement was established, and they are celebrating the birthday.
▪ Read in studio Next week, the Royal Air Force will be celebrating its seventy-fifth birthday.
▪ Mrs Selman celebrated her eightieth birthday just last week.
▪ She enjoyed it so much that she fancied celebrating her next birthday with a Concorde flight to New York.
▪ However, most February 29 babies celebrate their birthdays on February 28.
forget
▪ I did not forget the darling's birthday.
▪ You know I never forget your birthday.
mark
▪ To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference.
▪ The night before the election, a party was held to mark Mr Page's birthday.
reach
▪ He was yet to reach his thirtieth birthday, Magee thought, but ravaged beyond his years.
remember
▪ Never mind that I hadn't remembered my birthday either.
▪ You remember what birthdays are like when you're small?
▪ You always remember things like birthdays, somehow.
▪ Does Hammett remember his mum's birthday, and does he drive a nice medium-sized Ford?
▪ I've had them for over three years now and they haven't remembered a single birthday or Christmas.
▪ She brings as many of these children to her home as she can and always remembers their birthdays.
▪ They were from various aunts and cousins, and she was pleased they had remembered her birthday.
▪ But it was a few days before my birthday, and he has always remembered my birthday.
send
▪ His family sent him birthday cards, but he never received them, he was already dead.
wish
▪ Next up we would like to wish birthday girl Fiona many happy returns.
▪ She says she can't give him cards or wish him happy birthday and it's sad.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Happy Birthday/New Year/Christmas etc
▪ A Happy New Year to you.
▪ After midnight neighbours go outside and wish everyone a Happy New Year.
▪ But bookings still rose 41 % from the $ 3. 41 billion posted a year earlier. Happy New Year.
▪ Let's hope that a wet spring will bring green shoots for Roberts and the economy alike. Happy New Year.
▪ That is what Britain needs as we move into what we all want, a really Happy New Year.
birthday/Christmas etc greetings
▪ People's voices, exchanging Christmas greetings echoed on the clear air.
▪ The members wanted to visit the lady to pass on birthday greetings.
▪ These days they hung on for their hundred-year-old birthday greetings from the White House.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's my 18th birthday next week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Here the bridge between us is the Society of St Peter Apostle, whose hundredth birthday we celebrate this year.
▪ In this case she went back to her third birthday.
▪ It is five years since the settlement was established, and they are celebrating the birthday.
▪ Of about half a million foundlings christened in workhouses after 1728, only 40 percent survived to their second birthday.
▪ On my birthday in November we again lobbied the guards to have the radio for the day.
▪ Or rather, they photograph you only on formal occasions: birthdays, weddings, Christmas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Birthday

Birthday \Birth"day`\ (b[~e]rth"d[=a]`), n.

  1. The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.

    Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next The birthday of invention.
    --Cowper.

  2. The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.

    This is my birthday; as this very day Was Cassius born.
    --Shak.

Birthday

Birthday \Birth"day`\, a. Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
birthday

late 14c., from Old English byrddæg, "anniversary celebration of someone's birth" (at first usually a king or saint); see birth (n.) + day. Meaning "day on which one is born" is from 1570s. Birthnight is attested from 1620s.

Wiktionary
birthday

n. 1 The anniversary of the day on which someone is born. (From 1570s) 2 The anniversary of the day on which something is created. 3 The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called '''birthdate''' or '''date of birth'''.

WordNet
birthday
  1. n. an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)

  2. the date on which a person was born [syn: natal day]

Wikipedia
Birthday (Beatles song)

"Birthday" is a song written by Lennon–McCartney and performed by the Beatles on their double album The Beatles (commonly known as The White Album). It is the opening track on the third side of the LP (or the second disc in CD versions of the record). The song is an example of the Beatles' return to more traditional rock and roll form, although their music had increased in complexity and it had developed more of its own characteristic style by this point. Surviving Beatles McCartney and Ringo Starr performed it for Starr's 70th birthday at Radio City Music Hall on 7 July 2010.

Birthday (Angel)

"Birthday" is episode 11 of season 3 in the television show Angel. Written by Mere Smith and directed by Michael Grossman, it was originally broadcast on January 14, 2002 on the WB network. In "Birthday", Cordelia has a precognitive vision so painful that she goes into a coma. She is met by a demon guide who allows her to go back in time and choose a different path, so that she can avoid becoming afflicted with the visions that are killing her. Although in this alternate timeline Cordelia is a successful sitcom actress, she decides to accept the visions once again so that she can help people.

Birthday (disambiguation)

A birthday is an annual celebration of the date on which a person was born.

Birthday(s), The Birthday, or B-day may also refer to:

Birthday (Infected Mushroom EP)

Birthday is an EP by the Israeli psychedelic trance duo Infected Mushroom and the Israeli rock star Berry Sakharof. The EP includes a remix to "Yom Huledet", cover version to "Statik' Dancin'"; a song originally released under Sakharof's alternative rock band Minimal Compact, and a new track called "Deeply Disturbed", later to be included in Converting Vegetarians and as a single, with remixes by DJ Yahel and Violet Vision, and by Infected Mushroom themselves. The artwork is by Doron Edut.

Birthday (album)

Birthday is The Association's fourth album. Despite the ostensibly psychedelic cover, the album was even lighter on psychedelic influences than their first three, with "The Time it is Today" being the sole representative of conventional psychedelic rock. Most of the album, including the two hit singles, "Everything That Touches You" (which hit number 10 in the charts) and "Time For Livin'" (which reached number 39) is in the easy-listening symphonic pop vein.

This was the last LP by the group that spawned Top 40 hits. It peaked at number 23 in the Billboard charts.

Birthday (The Crüxshadows EP)

Birthday is a 2007 EP released by The Crüxshadows. It is the second single release from the 2007 album DreamCypher. A fan favorite, the band's wish was granted when it outsold their previous single/EP, Sophia. To the band's delight, Birthday hit #1 on the Hot Dance Singles Sales chart and #2 on the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart on September 13, 2007, while Sophia hit again at #3 and #23, respectively.

Birthday (film)

Birthday is a 1977 full-length Azerbaijani feature film. The film plot is based on Rustam Ibrahimbeyov's short stories "Birthday" and "Business Trip".

Birthday

A birthday is an occasion when a person or institution celebrates the anniversary of their birth. Birthdays are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with a gift, party, or rite of passage.

Many religions celebrate the birth of their founders with special holidays (e.g. Christmas, Buddha's Birthday).

There is a distinction between birthday and birthdate: The former, other than February 29, occurs each year (e.g. August 1), while the latter is the exact date a person was born (e.g., August 1, 1996).

Birthday (company)

is a Japanese video game developer and character design firm based in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. The company developed the Kaijū Monogatari games and designs of the manga and anime series Fushigiboshi no Futagohime.

Birthday (Taproot song)

Birthday is the second and final single from Taproot's third album, Blue-Sky Research. The song is the band's last to be released through Atlantic Records following poor album sales. "Birthday" was co-written by music producer Bob Marlette.

Birthday (The Sugarcubes song)

"Birthday" is a song written and recorded by Icelandic band The Sugarcubes for their 1988 debut album Life's Too Good. It was their first international single and the first single released from the album. The Icelandic-language version "Ammæli" was released on the Iceland-only single Einn Moli' Á Mann (One Cube Per Head) the previous year and was included as the B-side on the international single.

After "Birthday" became the single of the week in Melody Maker magazine and NME in August 1987, and was selected as number one in John Peel's Festive Fifty list, the band attained worldwide recognition and success. In the United Kingdom, the song was the group's first chart entry at #65 and also reached number two on the country's indie charts. "Birthday" was ranked at number 15 on The Village Voices " Pazz & Jop" critics' annual year-end poll to find the best music of 1988. The Sugarcubes performed the song, along with "Motorcrash" on Saturday Night Live during the October 15, 1988 episode, which was hosted by Matthew Broderick.

The song was remixed in 1988 by Jim and William Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain and reissued as "Birthday (The Christmas Mixes)". Remixes by Justin Robertson and Tommy D were produced in 1992 for the compilation It's-It, and were also released as a single.

A cover of this song has been recorded by Chitose Hajime in 2001. It has also been covered by The Mars Volta in 2008.

Birthday (Selena Gomez song)

"Birthday" is a song by American recording artist Selena Gomez for her solo debut album Stars Dance (2013). It was written and produced by Mike Del Rio, with additional writing by Crista Russo and Jacob Kasher Hindlin. Matt Beckley also provided additional vocal production for the song. Musically, "Birthday" combines deep electronic dance beats and police sirens with elements of trap music. The song's instrumentation is created by blending purring, synthesized bass, snappy beats, handclaps, "oxygen-sucking" sub-bass, and trap snares with sexual moans and elements of hip hop music. Sparse drum beats and vocal chants are woven throughout the song's composition, which has been described by critics as a mixture of electropunk and EDM, with trap and dubstep elements. The song was originally announced as a single, but was never officially released from the album.

Thematically, "Birthday" is a party song which discusses topics such as sexual appeal, self-entitlement, and girl power, while its risqué lyrics speak of a night of hard partying. The song has received comparisons to the music of several artists, including Dev, M.I.A., and Icona Pop. Upon release, "Birthday" received favorable reviews from music critics, who praised the song for its unique sound and production. Upon the release of Stars Dance, the song charted at number 12 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles. "Birthday" has charted at number 191 on the South Korea Gaon International Chart due to high digital downloads. An accompanying music video for the song was released on July 22, 2013, to coincide with Gomez's 21st birthday, and features Gomez and her friends partying and singing the song in different locations, including an underground nightclub and a dark room.

Birthday (Katy Perry song)

"Birthday" is a disco song recorded by American singer Katy Perry for her fourth studio album, Prism (2013). It was written by Perry, Bonnie McKee and producers Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Cirkut. Critics, as well as Perry herself, have compared the track to works by Prince and Mariah Carey. Through double entendres in the lyrics of "Birthday", Perry makes sexual references while celebrating a partner's birthday. The song was sent by Capitol to mainstream and rhythmic radio on April 21, 2014 as the fourth single from Prism.

Following the release of Prism, "Birthday" entered the single charts of South Korea and France. After being released as an official single, it reached the top 30 in Australia, UK, and Netherlands, number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 7 on the Canadian Hot 100. A music video for the track was released on April 24, 2014. Primarily recorded with hidden cameras, it features Perry disguised as five different characters in birthday parties and other celebrations. The makeup effects disguises for Perry were designed and created by Tony Gardner.

Jess Glynne covered the song on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.

Birthday (ClariS album)

Birthday is the debut studio album of the Japanese pop music duo ClariS, released on April 11, 2012 by SME Records. The album contains 12 music tracks, four of which were previously released on four of ClariS' singles. Three different editions of the album were released: a regular CD version, a two-CD limited edition and a CD+DVD limited edition. Birthday peaked at No. 2 on the Japanese Oricon weekly albums chart and was awarded a Gold Disc by the Recording Industry Association of Japan in May 2012.

Five of the songs were used as theme songs for various media: " Irony" was used as the opening theme to the 2010 anime television series Oreimo; "Koi Jishaku" was the first ending theme to the 2012 variety show Koekita!!; " Nexus" was the opening theme of the Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai Portable ga Tsuzuku Wake ga Nai video game, as well as the theme for the ninth volume of the Oreimo light novels; " Connect" was used as the opening theme to the 2011 anime television series Puella Magi Madoka Magica; and " Naisho no Hanashi" was the ending theme to the 2012 anime television series Nisemonogatari.

Birthday (Namie Amuro song)

"Birthday" is a song recorded by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro for her twelfth studio and third English album, Genic (2007). It was written by Emyli, composed by Andreas Carlsson, Gabrielle Symons, Michael Lerios, Demitri Lerios, Svante Halldin and Jakob Hazell, whilst production was handled by Halldin and Hazell. The promotional recording premiered on May 11, 2015, and served as the first promotional single from the album. Musically, "Birthday" is dance-pop song, influenced by pop and bubblegum pop. Lyrically, it celebrates Amuro's birthday.

Upon its release, the track garnered generally favourable reviews from music critics. Many critics commended the composotion and production of the track, but some criticized the lyrical content. The song peaked at number 36 on Billboard's Japan Hot 100, and reached number five on the Radio Songs competent chart. An accompanying music video was shot by Haruka Furuya; it features Amuro celebrating her birthday, and dancing in several colorful backgrounds and sceneries. So far, "Birthday" has been performed on Amuro's concert tour named Livegenic 2015–2016.

Usage examples of "birthday".

They reminded her of funerals, forgotten birthdays, and absentia apologies from loved ones.

Even Signora Strega-Borgia had joined in, apparently overcoming whatever it was that had ailed her and devouring course after course of Tituss birthday banquet, badly prepared by Marie Bain and surreptitiously adjusted by Mrs McLachlan.

Like the birthday parties that earlier played a strategic role in the apocalyptic subtext, this festive occasion might be seen as a fresh start, another new page in the story of life.

His birthday is the ninth of July, which also fits the Arithmancy numbers.

But when you were already more than week late with a birthday, Auger supposed, another few hours would make little practical difference, even to a nine-year-old.

When they got to Bethlem there was no room at the inn so they had to stay in a barn round the back and then Mary had a little baby and she called it Jesus and she put him in a manger and all the animals were around him and the big star shone up in the sky and then the shepherds all came and then the three kings came and they all gave him presents because it was his birthday and baby Jesus had plenty of milk because there were lots of cows about.

She failed by five, and was sentenced to a birthday birching which Maude herself applied whilst Alice was, still blind folded, undressed down to camisole and elegant black silk hose with purple rosette garters and tied with her arms in cross and her thighs widely yawned apart in the middle of the room, cords fixing to wrists and ankles being fixed at their other ends in turn to hooks set into the cellar wall.

The steeple on the far left belonged to the Methodist church, and a block behind it, unseen from the bleachers, was a handsome two-story home the town had given to Eddie Rake on his fiftieth birthday.

Chilled, he moved quickly, found the wall, and followed it, to get them out before Brio gave them like a birthday present to the Prince of Berylon.

Bearing in mind that about seventy years ago two great political parties were first formed in this country, that Thomas Jefferson was the head of one of them and Boston the headquarters of the other, it is both curious and interesting that those supposed to descend politically from the party opposed to Jefferson should now be celebrating his birthday in their own original seat of empire, while those claiming political descent from him have nearly ceased to breathe his name everywhere.

Early the following day, on his fifty-first birthday, Emperor Hirohito released two celebratory poems.

Less than two months later, and just after her own twenty-fourth birthday, Rosemary West gave birth to her third daughter and fourth child, whom the Wests christened Tara.

They either kill themselves the day before their birthday or they turn Daimon and start killing humans and gathering their souls into their own bodies to prolong their lives.

Clutching his didgeridoo, he stood in shorts and shirt, his eyes alive with delight, his white beard streaked with blue as if he had pushed his face deep into a brightly colored birthday cake.

So for once, Scottie had his own money to buy Keesha a gift, and it didn't matter to him if it was her birthday or not.