birthday
/ˈbɝθˌdeɪ/ noun A1- The anniversary of the day on which someone is born. · When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.· I'll be thirty-seven (years old) next birthday.
- 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.
- A birthday party. · I'd like to invite you all to my birthday.
Plural birthdays
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No one would have thought in looking at this old, weather-beaten, floral-decked tower (which might be likened to an elderly dame dressed up to receive her grandchildren at a birthday feast) that it would have been capable of telling strange things, if,—in addition to the menacing ears which the proverb says all walls are provided with,—it had also a voice.
“Jane’s mother is going to let her have a birthday party?”
Ruby Gillis is going to have a birthday party soon and there’s the Sunday-school picnic and the missionary concert next month.
“I’m glad they don’t give birthday presents like that!” But she did not venture to say it out loud.
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