Dictionary entry

Birthday

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Birth″day′ (bẽrth″dā′), n. 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.