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Meaning birthday meaning
What does birthday mean?
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Synonyms birthday synonyms
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Topics birthday topics
What do people use birthday to talk about?
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What words refer to the day a person was born?
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What words refer to a yearly celebration of a person's birth?
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What types of ceremonies are there?anniversary banquet baptism birthday party carousal celebration christening closing ceremony commemoration confirmation consecration convention dance dedication feast festivity fete funeral funfest gala game night graduation homecoming inauguration induction initiation launching memorial naming ceremony opening grand opening parade party reception recognition reenactment retirement toast trade fair wake wedding
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Examples birthday examples
How do I use birthday in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Today is June 18th and it is Muiriel's birthday!
I will give you a bicycle for your birthday.
Tomorrow is my birthday.
My birthday is in November.
The baby was in his birthday suit.
I look forward to my birthday.
Tomorrow is my birthday and I will be seventeen.
Happy birthday, Muiriel!
Happy birthday!
My grandpa blew out all 97 candles on his birthday cake.
Today is my birthday.
For my birthday he gave me a broom and told me to get to work.
I would like to give him a present for his birthday.
Almost half the men in Great Britain regularly give chocolate to their partner, especially for their birthday.
When is your birthday?
Strange things happened on her birthday.
A birthday cake with twelve candles on top.
If my house were a mansion, I would invite everyone I know to my birthday party.
My birthday is coming soon.
Movie subtitles
Oh, no. That's, um, for my sister's birthday.
I blew that pleasure on my 16th birthday.
It was her birthday, so I took her to Harrods and bought her a rabbit.
All across the country. I'm a historian, telling the true tale of this great land as her iconic birthday fast approaches.
Canada is having a birthday?
And this. a celebratory birthday song from Newfoundland.
Jenny celebrates her thirtieth birthday.
The birthday of a noble lady of Pompeii.
Mr. and Mrs. Berg have the honour to invite you to the Birthday party of their daughter Isolda.
Edith's birthday came.
It's for you - a birthday present.
Shave him already! Today is my birthday!
Is this your birthday or mine?
We're just having a few drinks to celebrate my daughter's birthday.
Today is my birthday!
It's my husband's birthday and I want to surprise him.
I've bought a piano to surprise you, on your birthday.
Harrigan had become a leading man on the Broadway stage by his 21st birthday.
I had a birthday last week, Katherine.
It's my birthday, I'll be 21 at midnight.
Happy birthday to you.
This isn't his birthday.
It's my birthday.
And I buy a little two-place gold candlestick I see there. that I take to church, and I light candles for my father's birthday.
Each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday, you build another fence around your minds.
You know what I want for my birthday?
I'm also here to celebrate your birthday with you.
Happy birthday, Section Chief.
I'm a historian, telling the true tale of this great land as her iconic birthday fast approaches.
AS YOU KNOW, THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY.
Did you say I could have anything for my birthday that I wanted?
My daddy gave it to me for my birthday.
Tomorrow's my birthday.
I have a memorable birthday.
News and current affairs
The fundamentals of our conception of human nature can all be found in Darwin's notebooks, written 175 years ago and before his thirtieth birthday.
The decision, coming at the cabinet's regular meeting on February 15th, was not intended to coincide with Kim Jong-il's 63rd birthday the following day.
That idea has knit together a country that many thought would not survive, and whose 60th birthday is therefore well worth celebrating.
Resources at the orphanages are limited, and many of the children there do not live to their fifth birthday.
Earlier this month, Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated his 75th birthday with a concert and conference at his foundation in Moscow.
This is the lesson of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which celebrates its 20th birthday this year.
In 2013, 6.3 million children died before their fifth birthday.
He was an icon among his fellow countrymen - indeed, for his 70th birthday, the largest newspaper in Poland organized a celebration during which they crowned him (with a crown of laurel leaves, of course) . the King of Europe.
Valentina Tereshkova, the first female Soviet cosmonaut - indeed, the first woman to go into space - recently celebrated her 70th birthday.
On January 1, the euro celebrated its sixth birthday.
In some quarters, pessimism, sad to say, dominated the recent celebrations marking the European Union's 50th birthday.
Of every 1000 children born, more than 100 died before their 5th birthday.
For every 1,000 children born in rich countries, seven die before their fifth birthday; for every 1,000 births in the poorest countries, 155 children die before their fifth birthday.
My apartment mate explained that everyone in her office, in the US Department of Education, had used the excuse of a birthday party to watch the US-Germany match.
Today, when I stand in my ten-year-old son's playground or look at his friends at his birthday party, I find myriad different languages, faiths, and colors.
For example, despite Chinese protests, Japan hosted a birthday reception for the Emperor in Taipei in 2003.
Earlier this month, Israel celebrated its 60th birthday, and President George W. Bush went to Jerusalem to play a leading part in the commemoration.
Soon, Helmut Kohl, Europe's Honorary Citizen and Germany's Chancellor of Reunification, will be celebrating his 80th birthday.
My ten-year-old grand-daughter will go there next week with her parents as a birthday treat.
And, as NATO approaches its 60th birthday next spring, there seems no immediate urgency about writing its obituary; 60-year-olds may reasonably look forward to another decade, perhaps two or even three, of active and productive life.