birthday gift

collocation in English

meaningsofbirthdayandgift

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birthday
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɜːθ.deɪ/us
/ˈbɝːθ.deɪ/
the day that is exactly a year or number of years after a person ...
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gift
noun
uk
/ɡɪft/us
/ɡɪft/
a present or something that ...
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(Definition ofbirthdayandgiftfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These donations were delivered in large colourful paper bags normally used for birthday gifts.
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As a teenager, her father encouraged her athletic career by building her home practice facilities as birthday gifts.
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Another birthday we cannot share, mybirthdaygiftmust be a prayer.
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We want abirthdaygiftfrom the commission in the form of freedom.
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As a 16thbirthdaygift, his grandmother gives him a digital camcorder, and he begins immediately to record the people and events around him.
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Three years later, hisbirthdaygiftwas an acoustic guitar with which he still performs with today.
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The car was reportedly abirthdaygiftfrom his parents.
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After receiving a guitar as abirthdaygift, she learned chords and wrote her first songs.
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His interest in music grew when he received a banjo as a tenthbirthdaygift.
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He released the single as abirthdaygiftto his brother.
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She first approached music by playing guitar by herself, and the father, in order to motivate, offered the instrument as abirthdaygift.
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Her first camera, which she received as abirthdaygiftfrom her then boyfriend, was used for politics rather than for artistic purposes.
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The 1999 cash-allowance item excludes holiday and birthday gifts, and the 1995 item has no exclusions.
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On the 18th birthday of the princess, the emperor brought her a basket of exotic sumptuous fruits as abirthdaygift, delighted that he was able to prevent the prophecy.
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He displayed a natural talent for music at an early age when he was given a mouth organ as abirthdaygiftfrom his grandmother at age three.
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He is a master of metaphors and deals with topics such as nature, the longing of someone special, birthday gifts, popcorn fights, hot phonecalls, etc.
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