POPPY DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Poppy Day mean? 

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

1. the Sunday nearest to November 11 when those who died in World War I and World War II are commemorated

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPPY DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Sunday nearest to November 11 when those who died in World War I and World War II are commemorated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Poppy Day; Remembrance Day; Remembrance Sunday

Hypernyms ("Poppy Day" is a kind of...):

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

Domain region:

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)