Associations to the word «Anniversary»

Wiktionary

ANNIVERSARY, noun. 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.
ANNIVERSARY, noun. (loosely) A day subsequent in time to a given event by some (especially significant) factor other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).
ANNIVERSARY, noun. (more specifically) Such, where the event is a wedding.

Dictionary definition

ANNIVERSARY, noun. The date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats