Definition of Birthdays

1. Noun. (plural of birthday) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Birthdays

1. birthday [n] - See also: birthday

Lexicographical Neighbors of Birthdays

birthday cards
birthday gift
birthday girl
birthday girls
birthday paradox
birthday party
birthday present
birthday presents
birthday suit
birthday suits
birthdaycard
birthdaycards
birthdaye
birthdayes
birthdayless
birthdays (current term)
birthdom
birthdoms
birthed
birther
birtherism
birthers
birthfather
birthing
birthing centres
birthing chair
birthing chairs
birthing pool
birthings
birthless

Literary usage of Birthdays

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1904)
"On the birthdays it is called pie show; and on these birthdays, ... When grown-up, the children give a wine-party to their parents on their birthdays, ..."

2. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Celebrations of birthdays: Mandarins celebrate the Birthday of the Emperor and Empress.—Mandarins, after arriving at fifty Years, celebrate their birthdays. ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"OUR birthdays. BY MRS. ... And in our wisdom self-content, Proclaim how strata reft and rent Are birthdays stamped in stone. And,—busied tracing back the ..."

4. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham (1840)
"As also the Celebration of all Festivals, birthdays, and Marriages, as unsuitable to the present Occasion. For the same reason they forbade the celebration ..."

5. Stirring Times: Or, Records from Jerusalem Consular Chronicles of 1853 to 1856 by James Finn (1878)
"ROYAL birthdays AND NATIONAL FLAGS. Royal birthdays—Salute of cannon for the Queen's birthday—Ideas of the ignorant Moslems about European Sovereigns—Other ..."

6. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"Four February birthdays JULIA HARRIS MAY Four masters of our hind began to play The harp of freedom tuned to grief or mirth, Or hope that still doth echo ..."

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