'Birthday' definitions:
Definition of 'birthday'
(from WordNet)
noun
An anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
noun
The date on which a person was born [syn: birthday, natal day]
Definition of 'Birthday'
From: GCIDE
- Birthday \Birth"day`\ (b[~e]rth"d[=a]`), n.
- 1. The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement. [1913 Webster]
- Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next The birthday of invention. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth. [1913 Webster]
- This is my birthday; as this very day Was Cassius born. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Birthday'
From: GCIDE
- Birthday \Birth"day`\, a. Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'birthday'
From: Easton
- Birth-day The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebrated in the land of Egypt (Gen. 40:20). There is no recorded instance in Scripture of the celebration of birth-days among the Jews. On the occasion of Herod's birth-day John the Baptist was beheaded (Matt. 14:6).
Synonyms of 'birthday'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anniversary,
- annual holiday,
- bicentenary,
- bicentennial,
- biennial,
- bissextile day,
- centenary,
- centennial,
- commemoration,
- decennial,
- diamond jubilee,
- golden wedding anniversary,
- holy days,
- immovable feast,
- jubilee,
- leap year,
- name day,
- natal day,
- octennial,
- quadrennial,
- quasquicentennial,
- quincentenary,
- quincentennial,
- quinquennial,
- septennial,
- sesquicentennial,
- sextennial,
- silver wedding anniversary,
- tercentenary,
- tercentennial,
- tricennial,
- triennial,
- wedding anniversary
Words containing 'Birthday'
- birthday cake,
- birthday card,
- birthday gift,
- birthday party,
- birthday present,
- birthday suit,
- davis' birthday,
- in your birthday suit,
- lee's birthday,
- lincoln's birthday,
- washington's birthday,
- in one's birthday suit,
- jefferson davis' birthday,
- robert e lee's birthday,
- martin luther king jr's birthday