DECORATION DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Decoration Day mean? 

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

1. legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECORATION DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Decoration Day; Memorial Day

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

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

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

May (the month following April and preceding June)