birthday
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noun- 1.
The anniversary of the day on which someone is born.
When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.
I'll be thirty-seven (years old) next birthday.
1903, L. Frank Baum, The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People, The Fifth Surprise: The Monarch Celebrates His Birthday, One of the Wise Men said the King was born in February; another declared it was in May, and a third figured the great event happened in October. So the King issued a royal decree that he should have three birthdays every year, in order to be on the safe side; and whenever he happened to think of it he put in an odd birthday or two for luck.
1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 9: The pride of Perks, "And we thought we'd make a nice birthday for him. He's been so awfully jolly decent to us, you know, Mother," said Peter, "and we agreed that next bun-day we'd ask you if we could."
c. 1911, Cotton Mather, Worthington Chauncey Ford (editor), Diary of Cotton Mather, Volume 1: 1681-1708, footnote, page 1, It was his custom to begin a new year's record on February 12, his birthday.
Đồng nghĩa: natal day
- 2.
The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
- 3.
The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.
- 4.
A birthday party.
I'd like to invite you all to my birthday.
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verb- 1.
(informal, intransitive)To celebrate one's birthday.
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From Middle English birthdai, birtheday, from Old English ġebyrddæġ (birthday), influenced by burðr, equivalent to birth + day. Compare Gebuursdai, geboortedag, Geboortsdag, Geburtstag, bursdag, gebursdag (birthday). Eclipsed non-native nativitee, from nativité, nativited, from nātīvitas.