FOURTH OF JULY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fourth of July mean? 

• FOURTH OF JULY (noun)
  The noun FOURTH OF JULY has 1 sense:

1. a legal holiday in the United States

  Familiarity information: FOURTH OF JULY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOURTH OF JULY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legal holiday in the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Fourth of July; Independence Day; July 4

Hypernyms ("Fourth of July" is a kind of...):

legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)

Holonyms ("Fourth of July" is a part of...):

July (the month following June and preceding August)

 Context examples 

We waited for her down the road and out of sight. It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)