HOW TO PRONOUNCE
anniversary
/ˌænɪˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/
Press play to hear how to pronounce anniversary.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does anniversary mean?
noun
- A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.
- Such a day that commemorates a wedding.
- A day subsequent in time to a given event by some significant period other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˌænɪˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
To-morrow is the anniversary of the death of my poor father, whom you knew and who was very fond of you.
From the west it passed to the eastern churches, where it finally became "the solemn anniversary of the birth of Christ."
More book examples (3)
The greatest pleasure of her life was now, as she oddly expresses it, to "dress the mausoleum" on "darling Dick's anniversary."
The decisive battle of the war for independence, whose centennial anniversary will soon be gratefully celebrated at Yorktown, had not yet been fought.
Next in order to the magistrates came the young and eminently distinguished divine, from whose lips the religious discourse of the anniversary was expected.