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PUBLIC HOLIDAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Authorized by law and limiting work or official business
Synonyms:
legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("public 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 "public 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)
