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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Birthday \Birth"day'\ (b[~e]rth"d[=a]'), noun
1. The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next 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 birthday; as this very day Was Cassius born. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Birthday \Birth"day'\, adjective Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
birthday
noun
1: an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
2: the date on which a person was born [syn: {natal day}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "birthday": anniversary, annual holiday, bicentenary, bicentennial, biennial, bissextile day, centenary, centennial, commemoration, decennial, diamond jubilee, golden wedding anniversary, holy days, immovable feast, jubilee, leap year, name day, natal day, octennial, quadrennial, quasquicentennial, quincentenary, quincentennial, quinquennial, septennial, sesquicentennial, sextennial, silver wedding anniversary, tercentenary, tercentennial, tricennial, triennial, wedding anniversary
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Birth-day The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebrated in the land of Egypt (Gen. 40:20). There is no recorded instance in Scripture of the celebration of birth-days among the Jews. On the occasion of Herod's birth-day John the Baptist was beheaded (Matt. 14:6).
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