RAG WEEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rag week mean? 

• RAG WEEK (noun)
  The noun RAG WEEK has 1 sense:

1. a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities

  Familiarity information: RAG WEEK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAG WEEK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

rag; rag week

Hypernyms ("rag week" is a kind of...):

hebdomad; week (any period of seven consecutive days)

Meronyms (parts of "rag week"):

rag day (a day on which university students hold a rag)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)