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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Birthday \Birth"day`\, a.
     Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as,
     birthday gifts or festivities.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Birthday \Birth"day`\ (b[~e]rth"d[=a]`), n.
     1. The day in which any person is born; day of origin or
        commencement.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next
              The birthday of invention.            --Cowper.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              This is my birthday; as this very day
              Was Cassius born.                     --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  birthday
       n 1: an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the
            celebration of it)
       2: the date on which a person was born [syn: {natal day}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "birthday":
     anniversary, annual holiday, bicentenary, bicentennial, biennial,
     bissextile day, centenary, centennial, commemoration, decennial,
     diamond jubilee, golden wedding anniversary, holy days,
     immovable feast, jubilee, leap year, name day, natal day,
     octennial, quadrennial, quasquicentennial, quincentenary,
     quincentennial, quinquennial, septennial, sesquicentennial,
     sextennial, silver wedding anniversary, tercentenary,
     tercentennial, tricennial, triennial, wedding anniversary
  
  

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).
     

















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