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Anniversary vs Holiday - What's the difference?

anniversary | holiday |

As nouns the difference between anniversary and holiday

is that anniversary is of a significant event, a day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since the event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years that have elapsed since the event while holiday is a day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.

As a verb holiday is

to take a period of time away from work or study.

As a proper noun Holiday is

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anniversary

English

(wikipedia anniversary)

Noun

(anniversaries)
  • Of a significant event, a day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since the event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years that have elapsed since the event.
    • Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.
  • (loosely) A day subsequent in time to a given event by some (especially significant) factor other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).
  • * 1984 , ‘Never Mind the Tranquil Facade’, Time , 27 Feb 1984:
    • The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores to power.
  • * 2002 , ‘Politics this Week’, The Economist , 14 Mar 2002:
    • In a thinly veiled threat to Saddam Hussein, President George Bush marked the six-month anniversary of September 11th by reiterating America's commitment to prevent rogue countries obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
  • * 2006 , DB Schrock, Soulmonger Dot Com , p. 28:
    • Jonathon proposed to his mom on their three-month anniversary of meeting and married her on their fourth.
  • (more specifically) Such, where the event is a wedding.
    • We are celebrating our tenth anniversary today.

    Synonyms

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    See also

    * birthday

    holiday

    English

    (wikipedia holiday)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.
    • Today is a Wiccan holiday !
  • A day declared free from work by the state or government.
  • A period of one or more days taken off work by an employee for leisure.
  • A period during which pupils and students do not attend their school or university.
  • A period taken off work or study for travel or leisure.
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  • An unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface.Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/holiday (accessed: June 26, 2007).

    • Synonyms

    * (day on which a festival, etc, is traditionally observed''): feast day (''celebratory religious event ) * (day declared free from work by the government ): Bank Holiday (UK), national holiday * (period of one or more days taken off work by an employee for leisure ): leave, time off * (period taken off work or study for travel ): vacation (US)

    Derived terms

    * bank holiday * busman's holiday * go on holiday * high days and holidays * holiday season * holiday-maker, holidaymaker * holidayer * public holiday * summer holiday

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take a period of time away from work or study.
  • (British) To spend a period of time for travel.

    • References

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words