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BASTILLE DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bastille Day mean?
• BASTILLE DAY (noun)
The noun BASTILLE DAY has 1 sense:
1. a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789
Familiarity information: BASTILLE DAY 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 ("Bastille Day" is a kind of...):
legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)
Holonyms ("Bastille Day" is a part of...):
July (the month following June and preceding August)
Context examples
The inventor previously presented the device at the Bastille Day military parade earlier this year.
(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)
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