Decoration Day

Noun

Meaning

legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Memorial Day Remembrance Day holiday day of remembrance day of commemoration commemorative day commemoration day

Hypernyms

public holiday national holiday legal holiday

Examples

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Back in the country when I was a kid we never called it Memorial Day, but rather Decoration Day. Source: Internet

Michigan made "Decoration Day" an official state holiday in 1871 and by 1890, every northern state had followed suit. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

decorating scheme decorating with decoration decoration worker decorational decorationally