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anni·ver·sary (an′ə vʉr′sə rē)

noun pl. anniversaries -·ries

  1. the date on which some event occurred in an earlier year
  2. the commemoration of such an event on that date in following years

Etymology: ME anniversarie < ML anniversaria (dies), anniversary (day) < L anniversarius < annus, year + versum, pp. of vertere, to turn: see verse

adjective

  1. that is an anniversary
  2. of or connected with an anniversary

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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