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[burth-dey]

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noun

the anniversary of a birth.

the day of a person's birth.

a day marking or commemorating the origin, founding, or beginning of something.

the festivities or celebration marking such a day or anniversary.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see birth, day

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When the birthday boy is centuries old, the party had better be good.

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When the birthday boy is centuries old, the party had better be good.

Perhaps they had a bad experience with an unprofessional clown at a birthday party.

Follow the link below to enter your name and birthday message.

We've prepared a special birthday menu of past posts to peruse.

Combine this with with occasional live music and plant sales, and you have a birthday bash to remember.

Today, a great geek, literary and comic book icon celebrates a birthday.

Over the years his birthday gifts have sent him parasailing, on hot air balloons rides, and zip-lining through canyons.

As many as seven in ten won't live to see their fourth birthday.

We may be celebrating a birthday or having a little dinner party.

Leave it to a cartoonist to have his birthday on a day when people have to cook him a big meal.

My youngest geekling had a birthday the other weekend.

And the prominent billionaire must be breathing a sigh of relief as he blows out his birthday candles and bids.

The bunting and obsequious banners that recently marked the king's official birthday were rarer than in previous years.

Use your brain to override your camera's brain and capture great birthday party photos.

Then envision your next birthday party and recall your previous one.

When birthday time rolls around, their future paleontologist wants a cake in the shape of, or at least.

Our children had played together, had had birthday parties together.

The world's population is thought to have reached that milestone on his birthday.

On two days, traditionally the anniversary of the birthday and.

Remember that on your next birthday that you are basically virtual to the universe and the earth.

Cooper gave a red hat and a copy of the poem to a friend for her birthday.

Leave birthday greetings in a comment if you're so inclined.

Since the retreat is always held on the same day of the same week of the year, it will be on my spouse's birthday every few years.

It also tells them whose birthday it is and how to dress.

We were checking out this article at a birthday party here at the beach.

It all started with a birthday party this past winter.

Your grandmother's reprimands about not sending notes for birthday gifts don't have any place here.

Consider using the date of your birthday each month to remind you to go out exploring.

Listened to a man at an interviewer's birthday party deliver a long lecture to me on the merits of a homeless life.

Ask students to choose a month of the year-perhaps the month of their birthday or the current month.

Have each student commit to doing an exploration activity on the date of their birthday each month.

The sad thing is is that it was my grandpa's birthday.

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birthday (ˈbɜːθˌdeɪ)

—n
1.	a. an anniversary of the day of one's birth
	b. (as modifier): birthday present
2.	the day on which a person was born
3.	any anniversary

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Word Origin & History

birthday

O.E. byrddæg, "anniversary celebration of someone's birth" (usually a king or saint at first), from birth + day. Meaning "day on which one is born" is from 1570s. Birthnight is attested from 1620s.

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