decoration day (noun)

  • 1Decoration Day — noun Etymology: from the custom of decorating graves on this day Date: 1871 Memorial Day …

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  • 2Decoration Day — noun US another term for Memorial Day …

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  • 3Decoration Day — noun legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war • Syn: ↑Memorial Day • Hypernyms: ↑legal holiday, ↑national holiday, ↑public holiday • Part Holonyms: ↑ …

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  • 4Memorial Day — noun legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war • Syn: ↑Decoration Day • Hypernyms: ↑legal holiday, ↑national holiday, ↑public holiday • Part Holonyms …

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  • 5public holiday — noun authorized by law and limiting work or official business • Syn: ↑legal holiday, ↑national holiday • Hypernyms: ↑holiday • Hyponyms: ↑New Year s Day, ↑New Year s, ↑ …

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  • 6legal holiday — noun authorized by law and limiting work or official business (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑national holiday, ↑public holiday • Hypernyms: ↑holiday • Hyponyms: ↑New Year s Day, ↑ …

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  • 7national holiday — noun authorized by law and limiting work or official business • Syn: ↑legal holiday, ↑public holiday • Hypernyms: ↑holiday • Hyponyms: ↑New Year s Day, ↑New Year s, ↑ …

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  • 8memory — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Retention of thought Nouns 1. memory, remembrance, retention, retentiveness, reminiscence, recognition, recurrence, recollection, retrospect, retrospection, afterthought; computer memory (see computers) …

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  • 9go|det — «goh DAY», noun. 1. a triangular insert of fabric used primarily on a skirt to give it fullness or decoration. 2. a wheel or roller of plastic or glass, used in spinning rayon yarn. ╂[< French godet] …

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  • 10order — noun 1》 the arrangement or disposition of people or things according to a particular sequence or method.     ↘a state in which everything is in its correct place.     ↘a state in which the laws and rules regulating public behaviour are observed.… …

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