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The date on which an event occurred in some previous year
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anniversary
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) [syn: day of remembrance ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., originally especially of the day of a person's death, from Medieval Latin anniversarium , from Latin anniversarius (adj.) "returning annually," from annus (genitive anni ) "year" (see annual (adj.)) + versus , past participle of vertere "to ...
Wikipedia
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" Anniversary " is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov . It was first published in the March 1959 issue of Amazing Stories and subsequently appeared in the collections Asimov's Mysteries (1968) and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973). The story was ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Of a significant event, a day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since the event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years that have elapsed since the event. 2 (qualifier: loosely) A day subsequent in time ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a birthday/anniversary celebration ▪ He is planning a very special 40th birthday celebration. ▪ It was the college’s 150th anniversary celebration last night. diamond anniversary golden anniversary sb’s wedding anniversary ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anniversary \An`ni*ver"sa*ry\, a. [L. anniversarius; annus year + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. anniversaire.] Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary , n., 2. ...
Usage examples of anniversary.
But Frederick West certainly marked another macabre anniversary in April 1975.
Cervantes, Don Quixote By the time of their tenth wedding anniversary in January 1982, Frederick and Rosemary West were consumed by an evil, all-pervading lust.
On one occasion, probably around the time of their tenth wedding anniversary, West even confirmed this power over his wife in writing.
This little yacht excursion in the Bahamas was a gift from the children to celebrate the twentieth wedding anniversary of Andrew and Billie.
Not only had she been made a widow during her twentieth anniversary celebration, but she and her daughter were locked in cages, kept like slaves for the amusement of a couple of demented perverts.
No mention was made of the supposed anniversary, which had served its purpose in getting us to turn up.
Folsom to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the marriage of Captain and Mrs.
The Warming had absorbed all our energies, and the great shock of the Happy Anniversary flash-bombing in 2033 had jolted us even more.
Our inwardness ended only with the Happy Anniversary flash-bombing of 2033, a real wake-up call.
Stewardship and the Happy Anniversary strike was something she was learning about, not something she had lived through, as I had.
Committee of Arrangements of the New England Society respectfully invite you to be present at the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Society, and the two hundred and sixtieth of the landing of the Pilgrims at Metropolitan Concert Hall.
A few years ago distinguished military men from abroad came here to participate in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the surrender of Yorktown by Lord Cornwallis.
Noah Porter, President of Yale College, at the seventy-second anniversary banquet of the New England Society in the City of New York, December 22, 1877.
I hoped, under cover of that mistake, to escape one or the other, but I find that each claims its day to be the genuine anniversary of the landing of their Fathers on Plymouth Rock.
Henry Watterson at the eighty-ninth anniversary banquet of the New England Society in the City of New York, December 22, 1894.