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# anniversary

«anniversary» in Mova's school dictionary: **the day exactly one or more years after an important…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an anniversary, anniversaries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An anniversary is the day exactly one or more years after an important event, which people remember or celebrate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#m1)

2) A wedding anniversary is the day each year when a married couple remembers their wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#m2)

3) A sad anniversary is the day remembering a death or disaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Families celebrate wedding anniversaries with cards or a meal; schools and towns mark anniversaries of their founding. On the anniversary of a loved one's death, families may visit the grave or light a candle. In maths, counting anniversaries is counting whole years: an event, then its first, second, third anniversary. Phrases: wedding anniversary, silver/golden anniversary, the anniversary of, happy anniversary.

### examples

- It's Mum and Dad's wedding anniversary, so we made them a card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#x1)
- Nan and Grandpa had a golden anniversary party for fifty years of marriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#x2)
- The school celebrated the anniversary of its opening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#x3)
- On the anniversary of Grandad's death, we visited his grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#x4)
- Happy anniversary! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#x5)
- The town marked the anniversary of the flood with a minute's silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#x6)
- This is the wofulest anniversary in the whole year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/#x7)

### note

Countable; plural anniversaries (y → ies). Spelling: double n, -ersary. A birthday is a person's own anniversary of being born, but we just say "birthday". Silver = 25 years, golden = 50 years, diamond = 60 years of marriage.

### In the corpora

- [A golden wedding anniversary means a couple has been married for fifty years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/15/)
- [Families visit graves, send cards, mark the anniversary, hold memorial services and even put up benches with little plaques.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/5/)
- [The anniversary of a death often brings the sadness back strongly; families may light a candle, visit the grave or share stories.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/16/)
- [Five years later they still call it «beanbag day» and share a biscuit on its anniversary.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/2/)
- [Sad feelings often return around the anniversary of a death; it does not mean you are going backwards.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/3-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anniversary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anniversary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.