anniversary
pronunciation
How to pronounce anniversary in British English:
UK [ˌænɪˈvɜːsəri]
How to pronounce anniversary in American English:
US [ˌænɪˈvɜːrsəri]
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- Noun:
- the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)
Word Origin
- anniversary
- anniversary: [13] Like annual, anniversary is based ultimately on Latin annus ‘year’. The underlying idea it contains is of ‘yearly turning’ or ‘returning’; the Latin adjective anniversārius was based on annus and versus ‘turning’ (related to a wide range of English words, from verse and convert to vertebra and vertigo). This was used in phrases such as diēs anniversāria ‘day returning every year’, and eventually became a noun in its own right.=> annual, convert, verse
- anniversary (n.)
- early 13c., originally especially of the day of a person's death, from Medieval Latin anniversarium, from Latin anniversarius (adj.) "returning annually," from annus (genitive anni) "year" (see annual (adj.)) + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn" (see versus). The adjective came to be used as a noun in Church Latin as anniversaria (dies) in reference to saints' days. An Old English word for "anniversary" (n.) was mynddæg, literally "mind-day."
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Example
- 1. Tuesday was his three-month anniversary as aig 's chief .
- 2. Wednesday is the 7-year anniversary of hurricane katrina .
- 3. The u. n. secretary-general marked the fifth anniversary of the bombing of u. n.headquarters in baghdad tuesday .
- 4. Outside germany other countries joined in the anniversary celebrations .
- 5. The ceo said the luxury market " can only get better " as the anniversary of the financial crisis passes .