different between anniversary vs remembrance

English

Etymology

From Middle English anniversary, from Medieval Latin annivers?ria (di?s), annivers?rium, from annivers?rius (“yearly”), from annus (“year”) + vertere (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æn??v??s(?)?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æn??v?s(?)?i/, /?æn??v?s(?)?i/

Noun

anniversary (plural anniversaries)

1. A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.

   Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.

   1. (especially) Such a day that commemorates a wedding.

      We are celebrating our tenth anniversary today.

2. (loosely) A day subsequent in time to a given event by some significant period other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).
   • 1984, ‘Never Mind the Tranquil Facade’, Time, 27 Feb 1984:

     The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores to power.

   • 2002, ‘Politics this Week’, The Economist, 14 Mar 2002:

     In a thinly veiled threat to Saddam Hussein, President George Bush marked the six-month anniversary of September 11th by reiterating America's commitment to prevent rogue countries obtaining weapons of mass destruction.

Synonyms

• yearday
• yeartide (rare, nonstandard)

Hyponyms

• birthday
• yahrzeit

Derived terms

• dateaversary
• meetaversary

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French remembrance, from remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememor?r? (“to call to mind, to remember”). Equivalent to remember +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.?m?m.b??ns/
• Hyphenation: re?mem?brance

Noun

remembrance (countable and uncountable, plural remembrances)

1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
   • 1705, Joseph Addison, “Bolonia, Modena, Parma, Turin, &c.”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, OCLC 181833922; republished The Hague: Printed for Henry Scheurleer, 1718, OCLC 224641578, page 292:

     For Titan, by the mightly Lo?s [of Phaëthon] di?may'd, / Among the Heav'ns th'Immortal Fact di?play'd, / Le?t the remembrance of his Grief ?hould fail, / And in Con?tellations wrote his Tale. [Translation of a work by Claudian.]

2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory, recollection.
   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which is to Come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream wherein is Discovered, the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey; and Safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey, London: Printed for Nath[aniel] Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey near Cornhill, OCLC 733063856; republished as The Pilgrim's Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, OCLC 34741916, page 77:

     Yes, and did ?ee ?uch things there, the remembrance of which will ?tick by me as long as I live; ?pecially three things, to wit, How Chri?t, in de?pite of Satan, maintains his work of Grace in the heart; how the Man had ?inned him?elf quite out of hopes of Gods mercy; and al?o the Dream of him that thought in his ?leep the day of Judgement was come.

   • 1725–1726, Homer; Alexander Pope and William Broome, transl., The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646; republished as H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, editor, The Odyssey of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, London: George Routledge and Sons, the Broadway, Ludgate; New York, N.Y.: 416, Broome Street, 1872, OCLC 880970094, book VIII, page 381:

     […] Nausicaa blooming as a goddess stands, / With wondering eyes the hero [Odysseus] she survey'd / And grateful thus began the royal maid: / 'Hail, godlike stranger! and when heaven restores / To thy fond wish thy long-expected shores, / This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear, / To me thou owest, to me, the vital air.'
3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
4. That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memento, a memorial, a souvenir, a token; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed for W[illiam] Ponsonbie, OCLC 18024649, book I, canto I, stanzas I and II; republished in John Hughes, editor, The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser. In Six Volumes. With a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words, volume I, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head, over against Catherine-street in the Strand, 1715, OCLC 175074, page 23:

     [stanza I] A Gentle Knight was pricking on the Plain, / Yclad in mightie Arms and ?ilver Shield, […] / [stanza II] And on his Brea?t a bloody Cro?s he bore, / The dear remembrance of his dying Lord, / For who?e ?weet ?ake that glorious Badge he wore, / And dead (as living) ever him ador'd: […]

5. The power of remembering; the reach of personal knowledge; the period over which one's memory extends.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, OCLC 767532218, book VIII; republished as Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, B. Dod, J[ohn] Rivington, J. Ward, J. Richardson, S. Crowder and Co., T[homas] Longman, E. Dilly, and A. and C. Corbet, 1760, OCLC 946737211, page 211, lines 203–205:

     Thee I have heard relating what was done / Ere my remembrance; now hear me relate / My ?tory, which perhaps thou ha?t not heard; […]

6. (obsolete) Something to be remembered; an admonition, counsel, instruction.

Synonyms

• recollection
• reminiscence

Derived terms

• remembrancer, Remembrancer
• Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday

Translations

See also

• memory

Old French

Noun

remembrance f (oblique plural remembrances, nominative singular remembrance, nominative plural remembrances)

1. recollection; memory

Descendants

• ? English: remembrance
• French: remembrance