birthday : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: birthday	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for birthday
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
birthday n an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it) the date on which a person was born Synonym(s): birthday, natal day
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Birthday \Birth"day`\ (b[etil]rth"d[amac]`), 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Birthday \Birth"day`\, a. Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Birth-day The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebrated in the land of Egypt (Gen. 40:20). There is no recorded instance in Scripture of the celebration of birth-days among the Jews. On the occasion of Herod's birth-day John the Baptist was beheaded (Matt. 14:6).