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NAME DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does name day mean?
• NAME DAY (noun)
The noun NAME DAY has 1 sense:
1. the feast day of a saint whose name one bears
Familiarity information: NAME DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The feast day of a saint whose name one bears
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("name day" is a kind of...):
saint's day (a day commemorating a saint)
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