noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a birthday/anniversary celebration
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He is planning a very special 40th birthday celebration.
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It was the college’s 150th anniversary celebration last night.
diamond anniversary
golden anniversary
sb’s wedding anniversary
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They celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary in May.
silver anniversary
silver wedding anniversary
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a party to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
golden
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Another successful choice would be a golden wedding anniversary .
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Success is also particularly appropriate this year, as the band is celebrating its golden anniversary .
silver
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There's a two-hour Twilight Zone special to celebrate its silver anniversary .
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Gabbiano Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples receive a bottle of sparkling wine and flowers or fruit.
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Ateneo Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying 5 nights or more receive dinner on arrival and a complimentary gondola ride.
■ NOUN
celebration
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They now hope to combine their anniversary celebrations either with the steam weekends starting in May or the Railway Carnival.
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Chapman had died of cancer on Wednesday on the eve of the twentieth anniversary celebration of the first Monty Python show.
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The single event which marked the dividing line was the company's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in April 1979.
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The charity says scrapping the event is a big blow to its fiftieth anniversary celebrations .
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It's part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of one of the country's leading music promoters.
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In 1968 she made a speech in Westminster at the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the granting of votes to women.
party
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When we were having an anniversary party at home, flowers and a very kind note arrived from her.
wedding
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The couple plan to celebrate the victory and their seventh wedding anniversary by taking their children to Disneyworld in Florida.
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At the moment, I do quite a few barn dances, mainly for wedding anniversaries .
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What would the photos of my twenty-fifth wedding anniversary have revealed?
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No concessions are made to their infant's chicken pox or wedding anniversaries .
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Back home it was 6.30 am and ironically the morning of his wedding anniversary .
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The idea of making a special flower picture to commemorate a particular wedding anniversary works very well.
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Another successful choice would be a golden wedding anniversary .
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Finally the couple may be celebrating a birthday, a wedding anniversary or some other red-letter day.
year
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It was a great pity that the team was not allowed to perform at other displays during the anniversary year .
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And in Oxfam's fiftieth anniversary year , designers are definitely thinking pink.
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The anniversary year and the MacRobert also provided a showcase for the riches of the University Art Collection.
■ VERB
celebrate
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This year Colnaghi's also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the opening of its New York city gallery.
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This month, the museum celebrates its first anniversary .
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His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding.
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Success is also particularly appropriate this year, as the band is celebrating its golden anniversary .
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He leaves a wife, Kerry, with whom he would have celebrated his second wedding anniversary this month.
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Bernard also celebrated an anniversary Mass in his home church of St Bede's.
commemorate
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Each commemorated a painful anniversary on the same day last week.
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And to commemorate their anniversary , the charity has opened a new office in Glasgow.
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The idea of making a special flower picture to commemorate a particular wedding anniversary works very well.
mark
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There are no events planned for this weekend to mark the anniversary of his birth.
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How would the association mark the anniversary of the Great October Revolution?
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Today to mark that anniversary a veteran peace campaigner cut through the base fence.
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In the meantime we can mark the anniversary of Zeta.
receive
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Gabbiano Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples receive a bottle of sparkling wine and flowers or fruit.
wed
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Something the wife of a golf pro would wear to a barbecue celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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our twentieth wedding anniversary
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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First, can I say congratulations on reaching your tenth anniversary .
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For today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive.
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Last Wednesday marked the second anniversary of the 29-year-old's death.
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Others even offer to send e-mail reminders of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries and holidays.
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The anniversary had remained trapped in the unconscious, never reflected on.
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The single event which marked the dividing line was the company's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in April 1979.
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Today to mark that anniversary a veteran peace campaigner cut through the base fence.