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BIRTHDAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("birthday" is a kind of...):
anniversary; day of remembrance (the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The date on which a person was born
Synonyms:
birthday; natal day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("birthday" is a kind of...):
date; day of the month (the specified day of the month)
Context examples:
He considered that it might be done in one thousand six hundred and forty-nine years, counting from the Doctor's last, or sixty-second, birthday.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Is it a birthday, anniversary, or anything?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
If your birthday falls on September 12, plus or minus four days, the full moon will be speaking directly to you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It is even difficult for me to believe that there was a gap of full two months between my return to Salem House and the arrival of that birthday.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Now, Grandma's sixtieth birthday!
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It will be a wonderful birthday certificate from a loving universe.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It is Sophy's birthday; and, on our road, Traddles discourses to me of the good fortune he has enjoyed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If she had known what birthday gift was coming every minute nearer and nearer, she would not have said to herself, "I'll weep a little weep when I go to bed. It won't do to be dismal now."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Or you may take a trip to attend a friend’s celebration, such as a beautiful wedding or birthday party.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It happened to be the Doctor's birthday, too.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
