GROUNDHOG DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Groundhog Day mean? 

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

1. if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUNDHOG DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

If the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

February 2; Groundhog Day

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

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

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

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

Feb; February (the month following January and preceding March)

 Context examples 

You may feel it’s a little like the movie Groundhog Day when talks are repeated over and over in circular fashion, like a strange dream.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)