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anniversaries

UK/ˌænɪˈvɜːs(ə)ɹiz//ˌænɪˈvɝs(ə)ɹiz/

anniversaries is the plural of anniversary.

Meaning of anniversary

Noun

anniversary (plural anniversaries)

  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.
    1. (especially) Such a day that commemorates a wedding.
      • We are celebrating our tenth anniversary today.
  2. (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).
    • The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores to power.1984 February 27, “Never Mind the Tranquil Facade”, in Time

Phrases with anniversaries

Questions about anniversaries

What is anniversaries the plural of?
Anniversaries is the plural of anniversary.
How do you pronounce anniversaries?
Anniversaries is pronounced /ˌænɪˈvɜːs(ə)ɹiz/ (UK).

Words near anniversaries in the dictionary

  1. Annitsford
  2. anniv
  3. anniv.
  4. anniversal
  5. anniversall
  6. anniversaries
  7. anniversarily
  8. anniversary
  9. anniversary clock
  10. anniversary clocks
  11. anniverse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anniversaries (page history and authors); anniversary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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