to wish someone a happy birthday
1happy birthday — phrase a greeting you use when it is someone’s birthday Happy birthday, Jimmy! wish someone a happy birthday: I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday. Thesaurus: greetings for specific occasionshyponym ways of saying hellosynonym …
2happy birthday — a greeting you use when it is someone s birthday Happy birthday, Jimmy! wish someone a happy birthday: I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday …
3happy birthday — 1. interjection /ˈhæpi ˈbɜːθ.deɪ,ˈhæpi ˈbɝθ.deɪ/ Said or written to a person who is celebrating his or her birthday in order to convey the good wishes of the speaker or writer (literally, may you have a happy birthday ) When Charlotte entered the …
4wish — wish1 [ wıʃ ] verb *** 1. ) transitive wish (that) to want something to happen although it is unlikely: I wish I was rich! Andy wished that he could think of a way to help. I wish Beth would stop trying to be so nice. a ) used for saying that you …
5birthday — birth|day [ bɜrθ,deı ] noun count ** the day each year that has the same date as the one on which you were born: It s her seventeenth birthday tomorrow. Her birthday is on June 7th. a. only before noun intended to celebrate someone s birthday: a… …
6wish — I UK [wɪʃ] / US verb Word forms wish : present tense I/you/we/they wish he/she/it wishes present participle wishing past tense wished past participle wished *** 1) a) [transitive] to want something to happen although it is unlikely wish (that): I …
7many happy returns — This expression is used to wish someone a happy birthday …
8wish — wish1 W1S1 [wıʃ] v [: Old English; Origin: wyscan] 1.) [I and T] formal if you wish to do something or you wish to have it done for you, you want to do it or want to have it done = ↑like wish to do sth ▪ I wish to make a complaint. ▪ If you wish… …
9happy — hap|py W1S1 [ˈhæpi] adj comparative happier superlative happiest [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: hap chance, luck (13 20 centuries), from Old Norse happ] 1.) having feelings of pleasure, for example because something good has happened to you or you are …
10happy */*/*/ — UK [ˈhæpɪ] / US adjective Word forms happy : adjective happy comparative happier superlative happiest Get it right: happy: Although the adjective happy ends in the letter y , the related noun happiness is spelled with an i (not a y ): Wrong:… …
