V-E Day
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4.2
- noun
- /viː iː deɪ/
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Día de la Victoria en Europa
- When we do encounter Margherita in the Zone, she, like Europe after V-E Day, has broken away from their system, from the old power structures, and from the paranoid wartime mentality that ultimately produced her psychic break in 1939, culminating in a fugue state hysteria of which she has no memory.
- anniversary of V-E Day
- V-E Day in 1945
- week of V-E Day
Examples
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Foreign Affairs is pleased, therefore, to be able to open a window directly onto occupied Germany seven months after V-E Day, taking readers back in media res.
Academic text (2003) -
The show was rebroadcast a week after V-E Day by popular demand.
Academic text (2011) -
It's our first company since V-E Day, when everyone opened their doors.
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Anybody notice that today is V-E Day?
Blog text (14) -
On the previous day, 8 May, the Stockholm citizens had joyously celebrated V-E Day and the surrender of Germany.
Academic text (1993) -
One such trip was to Russia to play in Moscow in 1995, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of V-E Day.
Academic text (2015) -
J.D. Salinger went from D-day all the way through to V-E Day - 299 days in combat.
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Indeed, her s/m is anomalous among the other practitioners, who without exception submit to s/m explicitly deployed by the System prior to V-E Day.
Academic text (2017) -
In the fall of 1984, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had suggested to President Reagan that, during his visit the following May to a European Summit Conference, he make a symbolic gesture of reconciliation with the German government by laying a wreath at a German military cemetery at the time of the 40th anniversary of V-E Day.
Academic text (1998) -
Many people in the streets cheered and celebrated on V-E Day, marking the end of the war in Europe.
Synonyms
A day that marks the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in Europe on May 8, 1945
Surface Forms
Morphology
V-E + day
The element 'V-E' is an abbreviated label rather than a freely compositional lexical word, so a B1 learner who knows only 'day' (and the letters) would not be able to derive 'Allied victory in Europe' from the constituents. The meaning is culturally and historically specific (requires knowledge of WWII and the abbreviation 'V-E'), making the expression non-compositional and opaque to learners without prior exposure.
Etymology
V-E Day comes from the short form V-E, which stands for the words 'Victory in Europe', the day the Allies won in Europe during World War II. People remember the loud celebrations, church bells and parades, so V-E Day now means the day of Allied victory in Europe.