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birthday Definition

birth·day (-dā′)

noun

  1. the day of a person's birth or a thing's beginning
  2. the anniversary of this day

birthday Idioms

in one's birthday suit

Informal naked; nude

birthday Synonyms

birthday

n.

natal day, name day, date of birth; see anniversary.

birthday Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • celebrate: A joint meeting is planned for June 2004 to celebrate the 80 th birthday of Sir David Cox.
  • commemorate: The date commemorates the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre ( 1727 - 1810 ), the creator of modern ballet.

Adjective modifier

  • 80th: Join us to celebrate her majesty the Queen's 80th birthday, A Truly Scottish Evening in the grounds of Balmoral Castle.
  • 60th: Roger, my husband, had been told on his 60th birthday in August 1989, that he had cancer.
  • 50th: Maybe it will be out in time for my 50th birthday, in 2012.
  • 40th: Happy 40th birthday, Dad, October 25, 1998.
  • 100th: The 100th birthday of the Woolwich Foot Tunnel is in the diary for Sunday 3 October 2012.
  • 70th: Still things were not going well for Mr in 1917 Collins arranged a public subscription for William on his 70th Birthday.

Modifies a noun

  • celebration: I'm looking forward to many more birthday celebrations with her.
  • cake: A special gift or birthday cake for anyone with a gluten or wheat free allergy.
  • bash: Who else wants a place on my limited list for my birthday bash?
  • party: Later she is invited to the birthday party of a wealthy spoilt child, Paula Brown.
  • gift: Are you looking for a company that can supply unique unusual birthday gifts?
  • greeting: Saturday 20th May 2006 Appreciation could come your way ( possibly belated birthday greetings?

Noun used with modifier

  • 90th: Ray's work who sent a donation for all projects to celebrate his 90th birthday.
  • th: Th birthday in in los angeles change is real.
  • sixty-fifth: The remaining three died before 1912 and before reaching their sixty-fifth birthday.
  • 95th: An evening has been arranged on what would have been Nancy Martin's 95th birthday to celebrate her life and her work.
  • 91st: She died on 15 April 1983, her 91st birthday.
  • childrens: CHILDREN'S PARTIES We offer three packages for childrens birthdays.
birthday Quotes

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

—Rossetti, Christina Georgina

It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

—Dillard, Annie

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present.It was her birthday.Would Ihavegot married during the football season? And anyway it wasn't Rochdale, it was Rochdale reserves.

—Shankly, Bill (William)

It wastheafternoon of myeighty-first birthday, and Iwas in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.

—Wilson

For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

—Uttley, Alison

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

—Murphy, Dervla