BOXING DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Boxing Day mean? 

• BOXING DAY (noun)
  The noun BOXING DAY has 1 sense:

1. first weekday after Christmas

  Familiarity information: BOXING DAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOXING DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

First weekday after Christmas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("Boxing Day" is a kind of...):

legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Holonyms ("Boxing Day" is a part of...):

Christmas; Christmastide; Christmastime; Noel; Yule; Yuletide (period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6)