noun. The annually recurring date of a past event, as of personal or historical importance.

noun. A date that follows a certain event by a specified amount of time.

noun. An event at which an anniversary is celebrated.

Returning with the revolution of the year; annual; yearly: as, an anniversary feast.

In the University of Cambridge, commemoration-day, an occasion upon which degrees are conferred since the disuse of the acts. See act, n., 5.

noun. The annually recurring date of some past event; more generally, a day set apart in each year for some commemorative observance; a day for the annual celebration of some notable event, public or private.

noun. In the Roman Catholic Church, the yearly commemoration of the day of a person's death, by a mass offered for his soul, or such commemoration of his death daily for a year.

noun. The act of celebrating a day on its annual recurrence; a yearly commemoration, or (rarely) something done or prepared for such commemoration.

noun. The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated.

noun. The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.

noun. The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day.

adjective. Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly.

adjective. See Anniversary, n., 2.

adjective. that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York.

noun. Of a significant event, a day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since the event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years that have elapsed since the event.

noun. A day subsequent in time to a given event by some (especially significant) factor other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).

noun. Such, where the event is a wedding.

noun. the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)

"The timing of this anniversary is another wonderful quirk in Michigan State's dream run to the national title game in 2009, that it would come exactly three decades after Magic and Bird changed the face of their game with their classic rivalry."

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