Anniversary and Year

Anniversary

Anniversary noun - The date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it).

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Year and anniversary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Year" instead a noun "Anniversary".

Year noun - The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun.

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Anniversary and year are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Anniversary" instead a noun "Year".

Nearby Words: yearly, yearling

old	old anniversary	old year
special	special anniversary	special year
exact	exact anniversary	exact year
certain	certain anniversary	certain year
Other adjectives: present, original, single, actual, entire, next, coming, recent, previous, upcoming, aforementioned, eighth, fifth, thousandth, seventh, tenth, eleventh.

Interestingly, it didn't mark the actual date of the anniversary, being aired almost a year beforehand; instead, it marked the beginning of the show's tenth season.

Source: Milestone Celebration
In Father of the Pride, one year prior, Larry had promised to never forget the wedding anniversary ever again.

Source: Forgotten Anniversary
In "Time Flies," Lydia thinks Beetlejuice has forgotten that it's the anniversary of the day they met (which they celebrate every year).

Source: Western Animation / Beetlejuice

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