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MAYDAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Mayday mean?
• MAYDAY (noun)
The noun MAYDAY has 1 sense:
1. an internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider)
Familiarity information: MAYDAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Mayday" is a kind of...):
distress call; distress signal (an internationally recognized signal sent out by a ship or plane indicating that help is needed)
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