Meaning of anniversary in English

anniversary

noun [ C ]

/ˌæn.ɪˈvɜː.sər.i/ us

/ˌæn.əˈvɝː.sɚ.i/

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the day on which an important event happened in a previous year:

We always celebrate our wedding anniversary with dinner in an expensive restaurant.

Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the revolution.

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We are planning a dinner to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the company.
Tomorrow's parade will mark the 50th anniversary of the battle.
We went for a slap-up meal on our wedding anniversary.
It was their 25th wedding anniversary last week.
On this anniversary of the tragedy we remember the living as well as the dead.

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(Definition of anniversary from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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anniversary

noun [ C ]

/ˌæn·əˈvɜr·sə·ri/

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a day when we remember or celebrate something important that happened on that day in a previous year:

To celebrate our wedding anniversary, we gave a big party.

(Definition of anniversary from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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It would be a pity to have to wait for another anniversary to prompt further performances.

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The five hundredth anniversary of his birth occurs this year.

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As a related special event, the 20th anniversary of two-level morphology was celebrated.

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It was the tenth anniversary of his first major hit, a track often cited as the single inspiration for the global techno scene.

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Libations, funeral anniversaries, pictures, tombs, houses and inscriptions on the wall : all contribute to the remembrance and help to maintain the concept of ancestor.

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The anniversary statements indicate the day on which the 400day year ended.

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Other distributions were often carried out on the anniversaries of benefactors.

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Perhaps the passage of the golden anniversary of this operation should stimulate a degree of reflection among surgeons and cardiologists.

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Accordingly, it is worth reevaluating this classic on the fortieth anniversary of its first publication.

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If this is so, then the anniversary date of 1568 is likely to have been computed, and the error would not have resulted from copying.

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There is precise information about the celebration of the anniversaries of founders and benefactors throughout the year, with appropriate pittances and almsgiving.

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It went co-educational just before its fiftieth anniversary; women now amount only to 40 per cent of its students.

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In addition, ad hoc benefit increases are sometimes given without calculating costs, as happened in 1999 during the 50th anniversary of the nation.

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That is, was the 1558 "anniversary" date - at 140 rather than 400 days after the 1557 anniversary-used as the base for future anniversaries?

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Observance of the anniversary continued for several decades further.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

週年紀念, 週年紀念日…

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