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birthday
/ˈbɝθˌdeɪ/
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What does birthday mean?
noun
- The anniversary of the day on which someone is born.
- The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
- The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A birthday party.
verb
- (informal) To celebrate one's birthday.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɝθˌdeɪ/
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He had not been there for some time, and, besides that, it occurred to him that the day was his birthday.
“Is there any young lady in existence, sir, who could resist the temptation of accepting such a birthday present as The Moonstone?”
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Nitschmann asked us to select a number of verses, wrote them out and presented them as a birthday greeting to Mr. Oglethorpe.
“Oh, I forgot. I brought something to show you. Look here, it came on my birthday. Wasn’t it nice of him to remember?”
He considered that it might be done in one thousand six hundred and forty-nine years, counting from the Doctor’s last, or sixty-second, birthday.