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14 JULY
Dictionary entry overview: What does 14 July mean?
• 14 JULY (noun)
The noun 14 JULY has 1 sense:
1. a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789
Familiarity information: 14 JULY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
14 July; Bastille Day
Hypernyms ("14 July" is a kind of...):
legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)
Holonyms ("14 July" is a part of...):
July (the month following June and preceding August)
Context examples
What the spacecraft is actually seeing is the pixelated image shown at right, which was taken by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow angle camera on 14 July from a distance of 12,000 km.
(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)
On 14 July was somewhat anxious about crew. Men all steady fellows, who sailed with me before. Mate could not make out what was wrong; they only told him there was something, and crossed themselves.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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