Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🎉 New Year's Day ⛪ Religious holiday
January 1

January 1

54 1.0
The first day of the year celebrated with parties and fireworks
  • noun
translation icon : 1 de enero
  • Many people make resolutions on January 1 to improve themselves in the coming year.
  • Effective January 1
  • take effect on January 1
  • starting January 1

Examples

  • The total number of MENC members as of January 1, 1999, was 75,773.

    Academic text (1999)

  • ESI agreed not to market its product until January 1, 2004, and received $15 million from Schering.

    Blog text (1)

  • All the money we make from January 1 until August 15 goes to taxes.

    Blog text (1)

  • - Two tickets to the Royal Albert Hall on January 1st?

    Hideous Kinky (1999)

  • Five years later, when NAFTA came into force on January 1st, 1994, things changed.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Thus, Libya was to become independent no later than January 1, 1952.

    Academic text (2017)

  • In all, 221 homes were sold in Scotch Plains from January 1 to June 30, 2012.

    Blog text (6)

  • The following list of A.S.P. donors includes gifts made from January 1, 1989, to June 30, 1990.

    Academic text (1990)

  • China and the United States signed a joint communique establishing mutual recognition as of January 1, 1979.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Thirty-five states and Washington, DC, enacted such laws between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2012.

    Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

New Year's
vsJanuary 1
197 1.0

The first day of the year when people celebrate with parties and fireworks

is the specific Gregorian calendar day often celebrated as the holiday
New Year's Day
vsJanuary 1
24 1.0

The first day of the year, celebrated as a public holiday on 1 January

is the same date but named by the Gregorian calendar and often celebrated

Surface Forms

January 1 singular
January 1st singular

Morphology

January + one

A B1 learner who knows 'January' and 'one' will transparently interpret 'January 1' as the first day of January (a compositional date expression). However, the specific identification of that date as a Christian religious holiday (e.g., Solemnity of Mary or Circumcision) requires cultural/encyclopedic knowledge beyond the constituents, so the full listed meaning is not fully derivable.

Etymology

January 1 may come from the Roman god Janus, who had two faces and looked both backward and forward; people chose his day to mark a new start. That's why we think of January 1 as 'New Year's Day' and make resolutions or celebrate with fireworks.