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Birthday
Birth′dayˊ
(bẽrth′dāˊ)
, Noun.
1.
The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next
The
The
birthday
of invention. Cowper.
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.
This is my
Was Cassius born.
birthday
; as this very dayWas Cassius born.
Shakespeare
Birth′dayˊ
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary;
as,
. birthday
gifts or festivitiesWebster 1828 Edition
Birthday
BIRTH'DAY
,Noun.
1.
The same day of the month, in which a person was born, in every succeeding year; often celebrated as a joyful anniversary. It sometimes has the form of an attribute; as a birth-day ode.