New Year's Day
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- noun
- /nuː jɪrz deɪ/
:
día de Año Nuevo
- Many people make resolutions on New Year's Day to improve their lives in the coming year.
- Christmas and New Year's Day
Examples
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The next year, Batista packed it in on New Year's Day, 1959.
Fiction book (1998) -
We at Trailblazer appreciate you spending your New Year's Day with us.
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But where did you expect to get cash on New Year's Day, a bank holiday?
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The week between Christmas and New Year's Day, the letters stopped coming.
Fiction book (1992) -
You know that work contracts are signed on New Year's Day for the year to follow.
Fiction book (1991) -
Last New Year's Day she had made a resolution to quit, and she had.
Fiction book (1999) -
As we had decided to stay through New Year's Day, the girls filled the car with their Christmas presents.
Academic text (1996) -
A presentation made on Thursday, New Year's Day, ultimately overshadowed all other events at the meeting.
Academic text (2009) -
The first time Favio had eaten with them was on New Year's Day.
Fiction book (1992) -
Around noon on New Year's Day, Mom parked her car in the Old Creamery Grocery lot.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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The first day of the year when people celebrate with parties and fireworks
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The first day of the year celebrated with parties and fireworks
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the first day of the year' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'new' (recent), 'year's' (of the year) and 'day' (a calendar day); the possessive construction clearly links the day to the new year. This is a common, cross-linguistic calendrical pattern and follows standard English noun phrase formation, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should understand it.
Etymology
New Year's Day was named after January's god Janus, who had two faces and looked back at the old year and forward to the new one. Because people marked the start of the New Year on that special Day, the name now means 'the first day of the year' and is often a public holiday.