Memorial Day
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- proper noun
- /məˈmɔːrɪəl deɪ/
- US
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Día de los Caídos
- Memorial Day is observed with parades and ceremonies to commemorate fallen soldiers in the United States.
- Memorial Day weekend
And you hear it especially on Memorial Day, Day for fallen soldiers.
- And you hear it especially on Memorial Day, Day for fallen soldiers.
- So I don't know if you guys knew that or not, but Happy Memorial Day.
- Well, the day before Memorial Day I got way too drunk.
- Now Bingham didn't know about this story, but pretty soon Memorial Day was everywhere.
- Tour announcement come in Salt Lake Memorial Day weekend, just adding that last minute.
- Oh, when you went away to Memorial Day weekend?
- I was confused those two, it is Memorial Day.
- And I have good news for you, next year, Radcliffe Day is the Friday after, not before, Memorial Day weekend.
- And I don't know if we have yet even topped what it can be because this stuff here was put in on Memorial Day.
- And that spike aligns with Memorial Day and Memorial Week vacationing, which is a couple of weeks just before all the spiking started happening.
Examples
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Today is Memorial Day, which is an American holiday where we honor those who have died in battle and everybody does that.
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Memorial Day is for the fallen.
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You know how many people were shot over the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago?
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And you hear it especially on Memorial Day, Day for fallen soldiers.
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Since that day, I use that experience of seeing those two little boys to explain the difference... the very important difference... between Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
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It is Memorial Day, so kids don't have school and I'm at home and I have things to deal with here from the weekend.
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People were still milling along the paths like graveside visitors on Memorial Day.
Fiction book (2001) -
On Memorial Day, we visit cemeteries to honor the men and women who died fighting for our country.
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Many families gather to celebrate Memorial Day by remembering those who sacrificed their lives in war.
Synonyms
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A United States holiday to remember soldiers who died in war that happens on the last Monday in May
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'memorial' (to remember people or events) + 'day' (a day set aside) lets a learner infer that this is a day for remembering, which is a transparent compositional meaning. However, the precise referent — that it is a specific U.S. legal holiday commemorating members of the armed forces on the last Monday in May — is culturally specific and not predictable from the constituents alone, so full meaning requires prior exposure.
Etymology
The holiday Memorial Day comes from the years after the Civil War, when people would visit and decorate soldiers' graves on a special day often called 'Decoration Day'. That's why the name means a day to remember and honor soldiers who died in war.