LADY DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lady Day mean? 

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

1. a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LADY DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Annunciation; Annunciation Day; Lady Day; March 25

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

quarter day (a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due)

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

Mar; March (the month following February and preceding April)

 Context examples 

It ended in my moving into the house next Lady Day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)