a. [ L. anniversarius; annus year + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. anniversaire. ] Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. [ 1913 Webster ]
Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [ Eastern U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.; pl. Anniversaries [ Cf. F. anniversaire. ] 1. The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (R. C. Ch.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
{ etc. } an anniversary celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the event commemorated. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
[双十节 / 雙十節, shuāng shí jié, ㄕㄨㄤ ㄕˊ ㄐㄧㄝˊ]Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义 of 10th October 1911; Taiwanese national holiday with a patriotic and militarist flavor[Add to Longdo]
[きにち;きじつ, kinichi ; kijitsu](n) (1) (See 命日・めいにち) anniversary of a person's death (on which Buddhist commemorative rites, etc. are performed); (2) (See 七七日) 49th day after a person's death, on which Buddhist rituals are performed[Add to Longdo]
[おうとうき, outouki](n) (太宰治) anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide[Add to Longdo]
[しきねんさい, shikinensai](n) (See 式年) imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)[Add to Longdo]
[しょうりょうえ, shouryoue](n) (1) (esp. 精霊会) (See 盂蘭盆) Bon Festival; (2) (esp. 聖霊会) Buddhist service for the anniversary of the death of Shotoku Taishi (orig. the 22th day of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar)[Add to Longdo]