anniversary
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anniversary/anɪˈvɜːsəri/
▶noun (pl. anniversaries) the date on which an event took place in a previous year or in the past.
– origin ME: from L. anniversarius ‘returning yearly’, from annus ‘year’ + versus ‘turning’.
'anniversary' also found in these Oxford entries:
Armistice Day
- bicentenary
- bimillenary
- birthday
- centenary
- centennial
- diamond jubilee
- diamond wedding
- flag day
- golden jubilee
- golden wedding
- jubilee
- kermis
- millenary
- millennium
- octocentenary
- quatercentenary
- quincentenary
- regnal year
- ruby wedding
- septcentenary
- sesquicentenary
- sexcentenary
- silver jubilee
- silver wedding
- tercentenary
- Veterans Day
- yahrzeit
