Meaning

3 senses
  1. 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.

    Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.

    A 'millennium' is a thousand-year anniversary.

    Jahrestag, Jubiläum

    годовщи́наgodovščína, юбиле́йjubiléj

    річни́цяričnýcja, ювіле́йjuviléj

  2. 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.

    (especially)Such a day that commemorates a wedding.

    We are celebrating our tenth anniversary today.

    Hochzeitstag

    юбиле́йjubiléj, годовщи́наgodovščína

  3. (broadly)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).

More definitions
  • the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)

Examples

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  1. Our wedding anniversary is coming soon.

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  2. Today is my parents' wedding anniversary.

    ruСегодня у моих родителей годовщина свадьбы.

    deHeute ist der Hochzeitstag meiner Eltern.

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  3. Did you have a nice anniversary?

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  4. Let's celebrate the anniversary of our first date.

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  5. Let's celebrate the anniversary of our first kiss.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
day an exact number of years since an event:
Русский
By meaning 1
day an exact number of years since an event:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
day an exact number of years since an event:
wedding anniversary:

Origin

From Middle English anniversary, from Medieval Latin anniversāria (diēs), anniversārium, f

From Middle English anniversary, from Medieval Latin anniversāria (diēs), anniversārium, from anniversārius (“yearly”), from annus (“year”) + versus, past participle of vertere (“to turn”).

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