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NEW YEAR'S DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Year's Day mean? 

NEW YEAR'S DAY (noun)
  The noun NEW YEAR'S DAY has 1 sense:

1. the first day of the yearplay

  Familiarity information: NEW YEAR'S DAY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEW YEAR'S DAY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The first day of the year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

January 1; New Year's; New Year's Day

Hypernyms ("New Year's Day" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("New Year's Day" is a part of...):

Jan; January (the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice)


 Context examples 


Speaking of books reminds me that I'm getting rich in that line, for on New Year's Day Mr. Bhaer gave me a fine Shakespeare.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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