anniversary

Other forms of anniversary

plural

anniversaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anniversary

What does anniversary mean?

anniversary means "the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)".

How many syllables are in anniversary?

anniversary has 5 syllables: an-ni-ver-sa-ry. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ˌænəˈvɝsɚi/.

What is another word for anniversary?

Close synonyms include day of remembrance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anniversary a common word?

anniversary is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.