NEW YEAR'S EVE

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

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

1. the last day of the year

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW YEAR'S EVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The last day of the year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

December 31; New Year's Eve

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "New Year's Eve"):

Hogmanay (New Year's Eve in Scotland)

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

Dec; December (the last (12th) month of the year)

 Context examples 

'Mrs. Gardiner would be happy to see Miss March and Miss Josephine at a little dance on New Year's Eve.' Marmee is willing we should go, now what shall we wear?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On New Year's Eve the parlor was deserted, for the two younger girls played dressing maids and the two elder were absorbed in the all-important business of 'getting ready for the party'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They got up a masquerade, and had a gay time New Year's Eve.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)