anniversary

名词 n.
/ˌænɪˈvɜːs(ə)ɹi/|/ˌanɪˈvəːs(ə)ɹi/    /ˌænɪˈvɜːs(ə)ɹi/|/ˌænɪˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/|/ˌænəˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/

英文释义

名词 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.
    — Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.
  2. 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. especially
    — We are celebrating our tenth anniversary today.
  3. 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). broadly
    — The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores to power.

词形变化

anniversaries plural

词源

From Middle English anniversary, from Medieval Latin anniversāria (diēs), anniversārium, from anniversārius (“yearly”), from annus (“year”) + versus, past participle of vertere (“to turn”).
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