JANUARY 1

 Dictionary entry overview: What does January 1 mean? 

• JANUARY 1 (noun)
  The noun JANUARY 1 has 3 senses:

1. (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st

2. (Roman Catholic Church) a holy day of obligation

3. the first day of the year

  Familiarity information: JANUARY 1 used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JANUARY 1 (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Circumcision; Feast of the Circumcision; January 1

Hypernyms ("January 1" is a kind of...):

feast day; fete day (a day designated for feasting)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Anglican Church; Anglican Communion; Church of England (the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) a holy day of obligation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

January 1; Solemnity of Mary

Hypernyms ("January 1" is a kind of...):

holy day of obligation (a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Holonyms ("January 1" is a part of...):

Jan; January (the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The first day of the year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

January 1; New Year's; New Year's Day

Hypernyms ("January 1" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("January 1" is a part of...):

Jan; January (the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice)

 Context examples 

In Norway, PGR has increased from 0.88% in 2006-2007 to 1.2% in 2007-2008 and continued to grow in 2008-2009, reaching 1.31% on January 1, 2009.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

The planets will all be in place during the week between December 25 and January 1, so that week might turn out to be the most important for your career in over a decade.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

NOTE(S): As an attribute with data type EXPRIVLTS.DATETIME, focalDateRange can be used to express a simple date range such as January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999 or a relative time expression that includes a variable that represents another date in the model that is a study-defined anchor point.

(Defined Observation Focal Date Range, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

, the focalDateRange would be January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999.For the question, Have you smoked in the last 2 months, the focalDateRange would be an expression referencing a variable that represents the PerformedObservation.actualDateRange (a value yet to be defined) and a formula for the date range between when the question is asked (PerformedObservation.actualDateRange.low) and 2 months prior (PerformedObservation.actualDateRange.low - 2 months).

(Defined Observation Focal Date Range, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)