# anniversary

Pronunciation: say "a-ni-VUR-suh-ree" US /ˌænɪˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/, UK /ˌænɪˈvɜːs(ə)ɹi/

## Noun

1. A date that falls an exact number of years after an important event, such as a wedding; loosely, one marking another set period, such as six months.
   - Simple: A date that marks a number of years, or sometimes months, since an important event, such as a wedding.
   - _The company held a banquet to mark the fiftieth anniversary of its founding._
   - _Veterans gathered at the memorial on the anniversary of the battle._

## Origin

Latin annus ('year') and versus, the past participle of vertere ('to turn'), together gave anniversārius, 'yearly'. Medieval Latin built anniversāria (diēs) on it, and Middle English took that over as anniversary.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/anniversary (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).