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birthday

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The day of one's birth.
  • noun The anniversary of one's birth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The day on which a person is born, or the anniversary of the day; hence, day or time of origin or commencement.
  • Relating or pertaining to the day of a person's birth, or to its anniversary: as, a birthday ode or gift; birthday festivities.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary.
  • noun The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
  • noun The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
  • noun The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the date on which a person was born
  • noun an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)

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Examples

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    Another 'unhappy birthday' for Aung San Suu Kyi 2008

  • Just a little birthday gift for _your twelfth birthday_.

    The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter

  • $sql = "UPDATE contacts SET name = '$name', email = '$email', age = '$age', birthday = '$birthday', address = '$address', number = '$number', uploadedfile = '$uploadedfile' WHERE id2 = $id2";

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community kunyomi 2010

  • $sql = "UPDATE contacts SET name = '$name', email = '$email', age = '$age', birthday = '$birthday', address = '$address', number = '$number' WHERE id2 = $id2";

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community kunyomi 2010

  • $sql = "UPDATE contacts SET name = '$name', email = '$email', age = '$age', birthday = '$birthday', address = '$address', number = '$number' WHERE id2 = $id2";

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community kunyomi 2010

  • $sql = "UPDATE contacts SET name = '$name', email = '$email', age = '$age', birthday = '$birthday', address = '$address', number = '$number', uploadedfile = '$uploadedfile' WHERE id2 = $id2";

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community kunyomi 2010

  • $sql = "UPDATE contacts SET name = '$name', email = '$email', age = '$age', birthday = '$birthday', address = '$address', number = '$number' WHERE id2 = $id2";

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community kunyomi 2010

  • Your birthday is the same as my BFF since I was 12!

    The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera karenhealey 2010

  • "My birthday," Taliancich said (his birthday is actually on the 26th).

    One Man's HAMP HELL: 'Just Wait This Thing Out' The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • "My birthday," Taliancich said (his birthday is actually on the 26th).

    One Man's HAMP HELL: 'Just Wait This Thing Out' The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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  • sonofgroucho commented on the word birthday

    Mine today. Woopee!

    March 21, 2007

  • uselessness commented on the word birthday

    Happy birthday, SonofGroucho!

    (Mine's February 17)

    March 22, 2007

  • sonofgroucho commented on the word birthday

    Many thanks, uselessness. I got lots of nice presents!

    March 25, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the word birthday

    Happy Belated, SoG! And u, did you ever get that sheet cake I sent?

    March 26, 2007

  • uselessness commented on the word birthday

    It arrived, half-eaten and with most of the icing scraped off. The ice cream you sent was also melted and beginning to grow fur. Thanks anyway, dude.

    March 26, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the word birthday

    Half-eaten?? Those damn FedEx people!

    And that wasn't fur, my friend. It was artfully crafted...um...meringue. Yeah, meringue. That's what it was.

    Hey, can I help it that you live in a warm climate? ;-)

    March 26, 2007

  • trivet commented on the word birthday

    Happy Birthday, wordie!

    November 26, 2007

  • sonofgroucho commented on the word birthday

    Hip! Hip! Hooray for Wordie!

    November 26, 2007