anniversary
    n 1: the date on which an event occurred in some previous year
         (or the celebration of it) [syn: anniversary, day of
         remembrance]

Anniversary \An`ni*ver"sa*ry\, a. [L. anniversarius; annus year
   + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. anniversaire.]
   Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly;
   as, an anniversary feast.
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   Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2.

   Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual
      meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in
      Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]
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Anniversary \An`ni*ver"sa*ry\, n.; pl. Anniversaries. [Cf. F.
   anniversaire.]
   1. The annual return of the day on which any notable event
      took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the
      anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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   2. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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   3. The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day.
      --Dryden.
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