March 17
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- noun
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17 de marzo
- On March 17, Irish communities around the world come together to honor their patron saint.
- March 17, 2019
- Sunday, March 17
- March 17 deadline
Examples
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Many people wear green on March 17 to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
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Festivities for March 17 include parades and traditional Irish music.
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To celebrate the event, March 17, he picked Jeanette up at the library and drove to the airport.
Fiction book (1993) -
On Saturday, March 17, 2012, a fire started in a home on Poplar Street in Northern Liberties.
Blog text (23) -
Monday, March 17, 2008
Blog text (4) -
Thursday, March 17, 1960
Fiction book (1993) -
March 17, 1776.
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Tampere, March 17, 1896
Fiction book (1992) -
Nicaragua brought that additional issue to the ICJ in 2013, and on March 17, 2016, the Court found that it had jurisdiction to delimit the outer shelf.
Academic text (2018) -
On March 17, 1554, Princess Elizabeth, with six attendants, is taken on a barge to the dreaded Tower of London, where prisoners have often been killed.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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A holiday on March 17 when people celebrate Saint Patrick and Irish culture
A public holiday on 17 March when people celebrate Irish culture by wearing green and joining parades
A holiday on March 17 that celebrates Irish people and culture
Surface Forms
Morphology
The item is a straightforward composition of month + numeral: a B1 learner who knows 'March' and 'seventeen' will immediately interpret this as the 17th day of March (a calendar date), which follows a common cross-linguistic pattern. The specific cultural association with St. Patrick's Day is encyclopedic knowledge beyond the words themselves, but the basic date meaning is transparent.
Etymology
March 17 is the date people remember St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, because it is thought to be the day he died long ago. That's why March 17 now means St. Patrick's Day, a day of parades, wearing green, and celebrating Irish culture.