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Memorial Day   /məmˈɔriəl deɪ/   Listen
Memorial Day

noun
1.
Legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war.  Synonym: Decoration Day.





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"Memorial Day" Quotes from Famous Books



... remnants of which may be seen in both Figs. 30 and 31, set there as tokens that the paper money has been burned upon them and its essence sent up in the smoke for the maintenance of the spirits of their departed friends. We have our memorial day; they have for centuries observed theirs ...
— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King
... Long's happy way of expressing timely thoughts, the following passage, selected from an address which he delivered at Tremont Temple, Boston, on Memorial Day, 1881, ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various


Words linked to "Memorial Day" :   may, legal holiday, national holiday, public holiday


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