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BIRTHDAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does birthday mean?
• BIRTHDAY (noun)
The noun BIRTHDAY has 2 senses:
1. an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
2. the date on which a person was born
Familiarity information: BIRTHDAY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
birthday; natal day
Hypernyms ("birthday" is a kind of...):
date; day of the month (the specified day of the month)
Context examples
When you get to the new moon near your birthday, that new moon is carte blanch, to use any way you please.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"I guess I forgot your last birthday, Mart," she mumbled lamely.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It may have been my birthday.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Put them on the table, and bring her in and see her open the bundles. Don't you remember how we used to do on our birthdays?" answered Jo.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Three out of four children will have at least one ear infection by their third birthday.
(Ear Infections, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birthday is the 23rd just a fortnight and a day's difference—which is very odd.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in ’tween-decks of the barque Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Your big moment of the month will be your birthday new moon in Pisces on February 23 to use as a bountiful gift in any way you please.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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