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anniverse

anniverse is the obsolete form 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

Forms of anniverse

pluralanniverses

Words formed from anniverse

Questions about anniverse

What is anniverse the obsolete form of?
Anniverse is the obsolete form of anniversary.

Words near anniverse in the dictionary

  1. anniversaries
  2. anniversarily
  3. anniversary
  4. anniversary clock
  5. anniversary clocks
  6. anniverse
  7. anniverses
  8. annivs
  9. annl
  10. Annlouise
  11. anno domini

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anniverse (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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