DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does day of remembrance mean? 

• DAY OF REMEMBRANCE (noun)
  The noun DAY OF REMEMBRANCE has 1 sense:

1. the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAY OF REMEMBRANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

anniversary; day of remembrance

Hypernyms ("day of remembrance" is a kind of...):

day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "day of remembrance"):

birthday (an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it))

jubilee (a special anniversary (or the celebration of it))

wedding anniversary (the anniversary of the day on which you were married (or the celebration of it))

semicentenary; semicentennial (the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

centenary; centennial (the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

sesquicentennial (the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

bicentenary; bicentennial (the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

tercentenary; tercentennial; triennial (the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

quatercentenary; quatercentennial (the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

quincentenary; quincentennial (the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

millenary; millennium (the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it))

bimillenary; bimillennium (the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it))