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| Armistice Day |
November 11, the anniversary of the armistice ending World War I, called Veterans Day in the United States. |
| bicentenary |
a two-hundred-year anniversary; bicentennial. [1/2 definitions] |
| bicentennial |
pertaining to a two-hundred-year anniversary. [2/4 definitions] |
| Canada Day |
a Canadian legal holiday on July 1, celebrating the anniversary of the formation of the Dominion in 1867; formerly Dominion Day. |
| centenary |
a one hundredth anniversary; centennial. [1/3 definitions] |
| centennial |
of or pertaining to a one hundredth anniversary. [2/4 definitions] |
| decennial |
a tenth anniversary, or the celebration of it. [1/3 definitions] |
| diamond wedding |
a sixtieth or seventy-fifth wedding anniversary. |
| golden wedding |
a fiftieth wedding anniversary. |
| Guy Fawkes Day |
November 5, a holiday in the UK on the anniversary of Guy Hawkes' failed attempt in 1605 to blow up the House of Lords, celebrated with bonfires and fireworks. |
| jubilation |
a joyful celebration, as for an anniversary. [1/3 definitions] |
| jubilee |
a particularly celebrated anniversary, such as the fiftieth, or the celebration itself. [1/4 definitions] |
| Juneteenth |
the anniversary and celebration of the day, June 19, 1865, on which the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states was announced in Texas by Union Army forces. Before this date, slaves in Texas, part of the Confederacy, had no way of knowing that they had been freed on January 1, 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation; thus, June 19th, now a Federal holiday, is celebrated each year in commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. Technically, all slaves became free in the United States upon the adoption of the 13th Amendment at the end of 1865. The amendment abolished slavery everywhere, including in those slave-owning states that had not joined the Confederacy. |
| quinquennial |
a commemoration or anniversary of something that took place five years in the past. [1/5 definitions] |
| sesquicentennial |
a 15th anniversary or its celebration. [1/2 definitions] |
| tercentenary |
of or relating to a period of three hundred years or to a three hundredth anniversary. [2 definitions] |
| tricentennial |
a three-hundredth anniversary or the celebration accompanying it. [1/3 definitions] |
| wedding |
the anniversary of such a ceremony. [1/4 definitions] |
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