MARTINMAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Martinmas mean? 

• MARTINMAS (noun)
  The noun MARTINMAS has 1 sense:

1. the feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland

  Familiarity information: MARTINMAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARTINMAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

11 November; Martinmas; St Martin's Day

Hypernyms ("Martinmas" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Martinmas" is a part of...):

Nov; November (the month following October and preceding December)

 Context examples 

The road is all spotted like a shambles at Martinmas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Six long weeks were taken in these preparations, and it was close on Martinmas ere all was ready for a start.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

St. Luke's day had come and had gone, and it was in the season of Martinmas, when the oxen are driven in to the slaughter, that the White Company was ready for its journey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)