birthday
The anniversary of the day on which someone is born.
Example
“When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.”
Other meanings
The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called or .
Related words
- birthaversary
- birthdayish
- birthdayless
- Queen's Birthday
- birthday attack
- birthday blues
- birthday boy
- birthday buddy
- birthday cake
- birthday card
- birthday effect
- birthday girl
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "ġebyrddæġ".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “birthday” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.