anniversary
A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.
Example
“Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.”
Other meanings
Such a day that commemorates a wedding.
loosely A day subsequent in time to a given event by some significant period other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).
Related words
- blogiversary
- friendiversary
- manniversary
- monthsary
- weekiversary
- annish
- anniversary clock
- anniversarian
- anniversarily
- anniversariness
- anniversary day
- birthaversary
Word history
From Medieval Latin "anniversāria" (anniversāria (diēs)).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “anniversary” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.