wedding anniversary
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- noun
- /ˈwɛdɪŋ ˌænɪˈvɜrsəri/
:
aniversario de boda
- Today is the 40th wedding anniversary of my mom and dad, the Becketts.
- celebrate a wedding anniversary
So I did the whole like wedding anniversary gift by the year.
- So I did the whole like wedding anniversary gift by the year.
- And I guess for both of us, it, it, it was, we had to cancel our, our wedding anniversary.
Examples
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On the day of their first wedding anniversary, the first letter arrived.
Fiction book (2002) -
Today is our wedding anniversary
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It's our two year wedding anniversary right now.
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Also in October we had our five year wedding anniversary and I want to stay with you.
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Last month we had our twentieth wedding anniversary.
Fiction book (1993) -
Mr. M.'s family was planning to celebrate the 60th wedding anniversary of their parents.
Academic text (2003) -
Today, the Obamas celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary, as do my wonderful wife and I.
Blog text (11) -
When my mom and dad celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, we had a party to help them celebrate.
Blog text (18) -
My husband Jason and I took a Caribbean cruise for our 5-year wedding anniversary.
Blog text (25) -
We are planning a small party to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary.
Synonyms
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A date every year when people remember or celebrate an important event
How Significant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'wedding' (the marriage ceremony) plus 'anniversary' (annual celebration of a significant event) yields the anniversary of the wedding. This construction follows a common, cross-linguistic noun + anniversary pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Wedding anniversary comes from the idea of the wedding day coming back each year. The word anniversary means a day that 'comes back' every year, so the phrase now means the yearly 'celebration' of a marriage.