Synonyms for anniversary
ˌæn əˈvɜr sə rian·niver·sa·ry

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1. anniversary, day of remembrancenoun

   the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)

   Synonyms:
   day of remembrance

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1. anniversaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   yearly (in the sense of returning with the year), annual

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1. List of paraphrases for "anniversary":

   birthday, anniversaire, annual, commemoration, jubilee

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1. Howard Ray:

   Just look at November 5, 2009, we're coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, it just takes the will of a few select people to destroy the lives of others.

2. Buzz Aldrin:

   I’d like to have a few more years [to get to Mars], a very attractive time for a president to make a commitment is on the 50th anniversary of America first landing on the Moon, and that’s 2019; if you look at two decades from there, you come up with about 2039, so I round that up to 2040.

3. Rose Molina:

   That day was especially hard for us because Saturday was the one-year anniversary of the loss of my grandmother, and they were buried next to each other.

4. Indya Moore:

   And so to see today, on the anniversary of Stonewall, police heavy saturated in our streets, it's traumatic for some of us.

5. Dean Phillips:

   She made several comments to folks that we obtained through an interview, comments that were troubling with regards her infatuation with Columbine, the recognition the Columbine anniversary was coming this weekend.