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birth-day

birth-day is the archaic form of birthday.

Meaning of birthday

Noun

birthday (plural birthdays)

  1. The anniversary of the day on which someone is born.
    • When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.
    Synonyms:
    natal day
  2. The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
  3. The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.
  4. A birthday party.
    • I'd like to invite you all to my birthday.

See all 5 meanings of birthday

Forms of birth-day

pluralbirth-days

Questions about birth-day

What is birth-day the archaic form of?
Birth-day is the archaic form of birthday.

Words near birth-day in the dictionary

  1. birth weights
  2. birth-assigned
  3. birth-certificate
  4. birth-certificates
  5. birth-control glasses
  6. birth-day
  7. birth-days
  8. birth-home
  9. birth-homes
  10. birth-time
  11. birth-times

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birth-day (page history and authors); birthday (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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