Synonyms for anniversary

Most common

holiday · paper anniversary · anniv

All synonyms

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   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.

   A 'millennium' is a thousand-year anniversary.

Related words

Phrases

golden anniversary tin anniversary wooden anniversary paper anniversary

Forms

Plural

anniversaries → holidays, annivs, yeardays, yeartides…

Example sentences

• holiday A good many people have told me to take a holiday.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters

anniv

7 letters

holiday³, yearday

8 letters

yeartide

12 letters

mensiversary

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (holiday³ = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français

anniversaire

Italiano

anniversario

Español

cumpleaños

Deutsch

Jahrestag