Word Meanings - BIRTHDAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
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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.
Related words: (words related to BIRTHDAY)
- BARBAROUS
slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous - RECUR
1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. 2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some - SUCCEEDANT
Succeeding one another; following. - COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - THOSE
The plural of that. See That. - RECURVE
To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - ORIGINABLE
Capable of being originated. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - SUCCEEDER
A successor. Shak. Tennyson. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - ORIGINATION
1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca - RECURVATE
Recurved. - MONTHLING
That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. Wordsworth. - ORIGINANT
Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd. - ORIGINATOR
One who originates. - RECURVITY
Recurvation. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - FENCE MONTH
the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or - SPATHOSE
See SPATHIC - ABORIGINALLY
Primarily. - BIMONTHLY
Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - PRECURSE
A forerunning. Shak. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.