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Anniversary vs Yeartide - What's the difference?

anniversary | yeartide |

As nouns the difference between anniversary and yeartide

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 yeartide is a specific time of year; season.

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

    yeartide

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A specific time of year; season.
  • *1907 , Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Young Israel :
    • [...] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling.
  • *1958 , American Jewish Congress, Judaism :
    • Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide' of days, a ' yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?
  • *1985 , Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness :
    • Peter & 2-Js & I joined in a flower bunch, besides which I also sent her a 15 bob sheaf on my own, with gum-leafage — the sole homish stuff havable here at this yeartide — there among.
  • A specific time each year; anniversary.
  • *1921 , Emma Kenyon Parrish, The golden island :
    • A-dream, we rock at home. So, lasting-sweet is sleep : With sails forever furled. Forgot is all the world, And soft the yeartides creep : O sweet, O lasting sleep!
  • *2006 , Gene Wolfe, The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight :
    • There will be a tourney in three days, as always at Yeartide . You could enter those events at which you may excel.