CANICULAR DAYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canicular days mean? 

• CANICULAR DAYS (noun)
  The noun CANICULAR DAYS has 1 sense:

1. the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity

  Familiarity information: CANICULAR DAYS used as a noun is very rare.

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• CANICULAR DAYS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

canicular days; canicule; dog days

Hypernyms ("canicular days" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Holonyms ("canicular days" is a part of...):

summer; summertime (the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox)