"deathiversary" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: deathiversaries [plural]
Etymology: Blend of death + anniversary. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|death|anniversary}} Blend of death + anniversary Head templates: {{en-noun}} deathiversary (plural deathiversaries)
  1. (informal) The anniversary of someone's death. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-deathiversary-en-noun-HP5LtLZM Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2016 April 22, Jennifer Schuessler, “Shakespeare. Dead?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-21:",
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          "text": "In the midst of TV's full brunt of Diana deathiversary specials, Showtime has decided that what one naturally wants instead is a dispassionate, depressing documentary about the downward spiral and untimely death of pop superstar Whitney Houston, who drowned in a hotel bathtub in 2012 (official cause: coronary artery disease, complicated by drug use), leaving many unanswerable questions: Who was she? What was her legacy? Where did it all go so wrong?",
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          "ref": "2019 [2017], Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden, The Dreamed Part, Rochester, N.Y.: Open Letter, →ISBN, page 478:",
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