founding anniversary
- noun
- Several dignitaries attended the company's founding anniversary ceremony.
Examples
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Every year, the museum hosts special events on its founding anniversary.
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The school organized a concert to celebrate its founding anniversary.
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Happy founding anniversary!
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The museum celebrated its founding anniversary last week.
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The town organized a parade for its founding anniversary to celebrate its history.
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Next week, we will hold a special event to mark the founding anniversary of the local museum.
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The school is planning a reunion to honor its founding anniversary this September.
Synonyms
A date every year when people remember or celebrate an important event
Antonyms
How Celebratory
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'founding' (the establishment) + 'anniversary' (annual celebration), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the celebration of an establishment. This noun–noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g. aniversario de fundación) and follows regular English compounding, making it transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Founding anniversary is like a birthday for an organisation. Founding means 'starting' and anniversary means the 'yearly day' to remember it, so the phrase marks the day the organisation began and is celebrated.