ANNIVERSARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anniversary mean? 

• ANNIVERSARY (noun)
  The noun ANNIVERSARY has 1 sense:

1. the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)

  Familiarity information: ANNIVERSARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNIVERSARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

anniversary; day of remembrance

Hypernyms ("anniversary" is a kind of...):

day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anniversary"):

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

jubilee (a special anniversary (or the celebration of it))

wedding anniversary (the anniversary of the day on which you were married (or the celebration of it))

semicentenary; semicentennial (the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

centenary; centennial (the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

sesquicentennial (the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

bicentenary; bicentennial (the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

tercentenary; tercentennial; triennial (the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

quatercentenary; quatercentennial (the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

quincentenary; quincentennial (the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

millenary; millennium (the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

bimillenary; bimillennium (the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

 Context examples 

You may be going to a wedding, anniversary or engagement party, shower, or another celebratory event, or you may be planning to attend a trade show.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

June 30 marks the 109th anniversary of the “Tunguska event” in Siberia – the largest-ever recorded explosion of a space object plunging to Earth.

(Dangerous Asteroid Could Hit Earth At Any Moment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I PASS over all that happened at school, until the anniversary of my birthday came round in March.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Is it a birthday, anniversary, or anything?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

New Horizons' milestone matches precisely the 25th anniversary of the historic encounter of NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft with Neptune on Aug. 25, 1989.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

As it celebrated its 41st anniversary Thursday (Apr. 24), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) unveiled the largest genetic repository in Latin America, which can store up to 750,000 seed samples.

(LatAm's largest gene bank unveiled in Brasília, Agência BRASIL)

On July 25, which was the 110th anniversary of the first plane flight across the Channel by pilot Louis Blériot, Zapata fell into the water after a low-speed collision with the resupply boat.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

Vodaphone Germany, Nokia, and Audi are working on a mobile network and robotic vehicles that are part of a private expedition to the moon, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary year of the first manned lunar landing.

(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)

This may be a career-oriented project, such as a product launch or a special report you are researching and writing, or in your personal life, a renovation for your home or a surprise party for your parent’s fortieth anniversary.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)