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MEMORIAL DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Memorial Day mean?
• MEMORIAL DAY (noun)
The noun MEMORIAL DAY has 1 sense:
1. legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war
Familiarity information: MEMORIAL DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Decoration Day; Memorial Day
Hypernyms ("Memorial Day" is a kind of...):
legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)
Holonyms ("Memorial Day" is a part of...):
May (the month following April and preceding June)
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