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DECORATION DAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war
Synonyms:
Decoration Day; Memorial Day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Decoration Day" is a kind of...):
legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)
Holonyms ("Decoration Day" is a part of...):
May (the month following April and preceding June)
