HOLY DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does holy day mean? 

• HOLY DAY (noun)
  The noun HOLY DAY has 1 sense:

1. a day specified for religious observance

  Familiarity information: HOLY DAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLY DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A day specified for religious observance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

holy day; religious holiday

Hypernyms ("holy day" is a kind of...):

holiday (a day on which work is suspended by law or custom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "holy day"):

fast day (a day designated for fasting)

Christian holy day (a religious holiday for Christians)

Jewish holy day (a religious holiday for Jews)

Dormition; Feast of Dormition (celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church and is also celebrated on August 15th)

Holonyms ("holy day" is a part of...):

Christian year; church year (the year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons)

 Context examples 

A deficiency of blood coagulation factor IX inherited as an X-linked disorder. (Also known as Christmas Disease, after the first patient studied in detail, not the holy day.) Historical and clinical features resemble those in classic hemophilia (HEMOPHILIA A), but patients present with fewer symptoms.

(Hemophilia B, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)