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SAINT'S DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does saint's day mean?
• SAINT'S DAY (noun)
The noun SAINT'S DAY has 1 sense:
1. a day commemorating a saint
Familiarity information: SAINT'S DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A day commemorating a saint
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("saint's day" is a kind of...):
day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saint's day"):
name day (the feast day of a saint whose name one bears)
Holonyms ("saint's day" is a part of...):
Christian year; church year (the year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons)
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