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    NATIONAL HOLIDAY

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Authorized by law and limiting work or official businessplay

    Synonyms:

    legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Hypernyms ("national holiday" is a kind of...):

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

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "national holiday"):

    January 1; New Year's; New Year's Day (the first day of the year)

    Martin Luther King Day; Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday (observed on the Monday closest to January 15)

    Presidents' Day (the third Monday in February; commemorates both presidents Lincoln and Washington)

    Decoration Day; Memorial Day (legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war)

    Fourth of July; Independence Day; July 4 (a legal holiday in the United States)

    Labor Day (first Monday in September in the United States and Canada)

    Columbus Day; Discovery Day; October 12 (a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus)

    Christmas; Christmas Day; Dec 25; Xmas (a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)

    Boxing Day (first weekday after Christmas)

    bank holiday (any of several weekdays when banks are closed; a legal holiday in Britain)

    Commonwealth Day; Empire day; May 24 (British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth)

    Dominion Day; July 1 (a legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867)

    14 July; Bastille Day (a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789)

    Armistice Day; November 11; Veterans' Day; Veterans Day (a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954)

    Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag)

    Victoria Day (a public holiday in Canada on the Monday on or before May 24th)

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