silver jubilee

plural silver jubilees

1. The silver anniversary of a coronation, the 25th anniversary of a monarch's rule.
2. uncommonSynonym of silver anniversary more generally.

   By 1922, when The Railway Magazine attained its Silver Jubilee, the railways were in the throes of grouping, the Act for which had been passed the previous year, and which came fully into force in 1923.

   1957 July 28, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496

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   In Germany... a married couple, when celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage-day, are said to keep their golden jubilee; but on the twenty-fifth anniversary they have credit only for a silver jubilee.

   1853, Thomas de Quincey, “Autobiographical Sketches”, in Selections Grave and Gay, volume I, page 133

   Synonyms: silver anniversary more generally