Birthday \Birth"day`\ (b[~e]rth"d[=a]`), n.
1. The day in which any person is born; day of origin or
commencement.
Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next The
birthday of invention. --Cowper.
2. The day of the month in which a person was born, in
whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of
one's birth.
This is my birthday; as this very day Was Cassius
born. --Shak.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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