anniversary
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Definitions ofanniversary
- 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."
- (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).
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