Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The day of one's birth.
- n. The anniversary of one's birth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
- n. The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
- n. The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the date on which a person was born
- n. an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
Examples
“Promoted to Headline (H2) on 6/20/08: Another 'unhappy birthday' for Aung San Suu Kyi yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Another \'unhappy birthday\' for Aung San Suu Kyi '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Remarks on Aung San Suu Kyi\'s birthday and comments on the opposition\'s activities of Burma. ”
“Just a little birthday gift for _your twelfth birthday_.”
“$sql = "UPDATE contacts SET name = '$name', email = '$email', age = '$age', birthday = '$birthday', address = '$address', number = '$number', uploadedfile = '$uploadedfile' WHERE id2 = $id2";”
“$sql = "UPDATE contacts SET name = '$name', email = '$email', age = '$age', birthday = '$birthday', address = '$address', number = '$number' WHERE id2 = $id2";”
“Your birthday is the same as my BFF since I was 12!”
“My birthday," Taliancich said (his birthday is actually on the 26th).”
The Huffington Post: One Man's HAMP HELL: 'Just Wait This Thing Out'
“I know my birthday is actually on the 5th, but I was born on a Saturday, and I don't see why the universe shouldn't conspire to make my birthday magically always on a Saturday!”
“To those of us who enjoy your work, your birthday is a gift.”
“I think a birthday is a perfect excuse for slothfulness!”
“I somehow always manage to forget that your birthday is about two weeks before mine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘birthday’.
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 more...
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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Time
clock, forever, never, ever, ago, when, then, now, past, present, future, timeline and 119 more...
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Daze days
washday, doomsday, heyday, workaday, payday, everyday, holiday, holy day, holyday, playday, birthday, rudmasday and 39 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Best words in Beatles songs
kaleidoscope, plasticine, porters, tangerine, marmalade, cellophane, turnstile, marshmallow, lingers, slither, restless, limitless and 91 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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candy cane heroin
sex, sexual, branden, rozz, candy cane, candy canes, cotton candy, may day, may, taurus, heroin, love and 134 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Scriptie: The Return of the King
i can't carry it ..., at the end of all..., it's done, reach, eagles, veil, grass, water, cream, strawberries, barley, summer and 200 more...
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My Dogs' Words
treat, potty, outside, mommie, mommielina, mommierenee, kisses, yes, no, love, sit, down and 186 more...
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Scriptie: The Fellowship of the Ring
the world is changed, much that once wa..., great rings, immortal, dwarf lords, miners, craftsmen, three, seven, nine, deceived, dark lord and 216 more...
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WrightHandWords's Words
yclept, unction, prana, satya, abhyasa, vairagya, yoga, ashtanga, acronym, etymology, asana, widget and 286 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for birthday.
sonofgroucho Hip! Hip! Hooray for Wordie! Nov 25, 2007
trivet Happy Birthday, wordie! Nov 25, 2007
reesetee 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? ;-) Mar 26, 2007
uselessness 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. Mar 26, 2007
reesetee Happy Belated, SoG! And u, did you ever get that sheet cake I sent? Mar 26, 2007
sonofgroucho Many thanks, uselessness. I got lots of nice presents! Mar 25, 2007
uselessness Happy birthday, SonofGroucho!
(Mine's February 17) Mar 21, 2007
sonofgroucho Mine today. Woopee! Mar 21, 2007