yearday

== English == === Alternative forms === year-day, year day, year's day === Etymology === From Middle English ȝereday, ȝerdai (“anniversary”), from Old English *ġēardæġ (compare Old English ġeārdagas (“days of yore”)), from Proto-West Germanic *jāradag (“day of the year, yearly day”), from Proto-Germanic *jēradagaz, equivalent to year +‎ day. Cognate with West Frisian jierdei (“birthday”), Dutch jaardag (“anniversary, birthday”), German Jahrtag (“anniversary”). === Noun === yearday (plural yeardays) (rare, historical) Synonym of anniversary, a day occurring in a yearly cycle. (rare, nonstandard) Synonym of birthday, the anniversary of one's birth. (rare, nonstandard) An annual day; the anniversary of an event or occasion. Synonym of deathday or (Christianity) year's mind, the anniversary of a person's death, particularly as observed with a requiem mass or other commemoration. 1998, Plutarch (in translation), Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, page 310: For they were the very days on the which the women celebrated the feast and yearday of Adonis' death: and there were also in divers parts of the city, images of dead men carried to burial, and women following them, mourning and lamenting. A particular day numbered from the first day in the year, without regard to month divisions.