{
    "term": "anniversary",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a date that is an exact number of years after the date of an important or special event",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(informal)(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "on the anniversary of his wife’s death"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to celebrate your **wedding anniversary**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the theatre’s 25th **anniversary celebrations**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company is **celebrating** its 100-year **anniversary** this year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Public events will be held to **commemorate the anniversary** of the end of the Second World War."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They held celebrations to **mark the anniversary** of Mozart's death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a yearlong celebration of the 25th anniversary of his company"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The context was the occasion of the 450th anniversary of his birth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He bought her a diamond ring on their tenth wedding anniversary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our 20th anniversary is coming up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The anniversary of the founding of the charity falls in November."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the 100th anniversary edition of this classic novel"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages", "Religion and festivals"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["first", "second", "etc."],
                "verb + anniversary": ["celebrate", "commemorate", "honour/​honor"],
                "anniversary + verb": ["be", "fall", "approach"],
                "anniversary + noun": ["celebration", "party", "edition"],
                "preposition": ["anniversary of", "on an/​the anniversary"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌænɪˈvɜːsəri/",
                "audio": "an/anniversary/anniversary__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌænɪˈvɜːrsəri/",
                "audio": "an/anniversary/anniversary__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Latin anniversarius ‘returning yearly’, from annus ‘year’ + versus ‘turning’."
}