Anniversary

Noun

 * 1) Of a significant event, a day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since the event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years that have elapsed since the event.
 * 2)  Such, where the event is a wedding.

Verbs for Anniversary
anticipate-; applaud-; commemorate-; dramatize-; fete-; institute-; observe-; disregard-; stamp-; follows-; is marked by-; recurs-.

Thesaurus
anniversaries; annual holiday; bicentenary; bicentennial; biennial; birthday; bissextile day; celebrating; celebration; centenary; centennial; ceremony; commemoration; decennial; diamond jubilee; dressing ship; fanfare; fanfaronade; festivity; flourish of trumpets; golden wedding anniversary; holiday; holy days; immovable feast; jubilee; leap year; marking the occasion; memorialization; memory; name day; natal day; observance; octennial; ovation; quadrennial; quasquicentennial; quincentenary; quincentennial; quinquennial; rejoicing; religious rites; remembrance; revel; rite; ritual observance; salute; salvo; septennial; sesquicentennial; sextennial; silver wedding anniversary; solemn observance; solemnization; tercentenary; tercentennial; testimonial; testimonial banquet; testimonial dinner; toast; tribute; tricennial; triennial; triumph; wedding anniversary

Etymology
From the Latin adjective anniversarius, "returning yearly", from vertere, "to turn", + annus, "year".

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: տարեդարձ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: datreveno
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Jahrestag, Hochzeitstag (2)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, dánarafmæli,  ,  dánardægur
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 記念日 (kinenbi)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Latin: natalis
 * Maltese: anniversarju
 * Polish: rocznica
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachan bliadhnail
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: obletnica (1,2)
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Walloon: Aniviersaire


 * Esperanto: jubileo
 * Finnish:
 * French: anniversaire de mariage


 * Icelandic: brúðkaupsafmæli
 * Japanese: 結婚記念日
 * Latin: natalis