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NEW YEAR'S DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does New Year's Day mean?
• NEW YEAR'S DAY (noun)
The noun NEW YEAR'S DAY has 1 sense:
1. the first day of the year
Familiarity information: NEW YEAR'S DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("New Year's Day" is a kind of...):
legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)
Holonyms ("New Year's Day" is a part of...):
Jan; January (the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice)
Context examples
Speaking of books reminds me that I'm getting rich in that line, for on New Year's Day Mr. Bhaer gave me a fine Shakespeare.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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