Definition of Birthday

Birth´day`   Pronunciation: bẽrth´dā`
n.1.The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next
The birthday of invention.
- Cowper.
2.The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.
This is my birthday; as this very day
Was Cassius born.
- Shak.
a.1.Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.


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anniversary, annual holiday, bicentenary, bicentennial, biennial, bissextile day, centenary, centennial, commemoration, decennial, diamond jubilee, golden wedding anniversary, holy days, immovable feast, jubilee, leap year, name day, natal day, octennial, quadrennial, quasquicentennial, quincentenary, quincentennial, quinquennial, septennial, sesquicentennial, sextennial, silver wedding anniversary, tercentenary, tercentennial, tricennial, triennial, wedding anniversary

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