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Valentine's Day en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˈvælənˌtaɪnzˌdeɪ/ (General-American)
• (US) audio

Meanings

1. Synonym of Saint Valentine's Day.
   • Valentine’s Day is a time for love and affection. I do not know anyone who wants to spend Valentine’s Day alone. I love to spend my Valentine’s Days with the person I am dating or my family. I love buying and giving gifts during this holiday but the most important thing is being with the people I care about and love. [F, Diary] 2006, Cornelia Pechmann, Linda L. Price, editors, ACR in San Antonio 2005 (Advances in Consumer Research; XXXIII), Association for Consumer Research, →ISBN, page 361, column 1:
   • The idea of matching outfits suddenly seems like a great way to show our compatibility, so we eat breakfast in heart-covered pajamas, but this willingness to embarrass ourselves for amour is what makes our Valentine’s Days truly romantic. 2013, Mike Bender, Doug Chernack, “Valentine’s Day”, in Awkward Family Holiday Photos, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 13:
   • On the long time line of the so-human search for a profound and lasting happiness, many of us will still have our romances. Of the senses and the mind. We will have our spring dances, our candlelight dinners, our Valentine’s Days, our ear when we need to talk, our moonlit hand-holdings, our horizon gazings. our car rides in sensual silence. 1994, Wynton Marsalis, Frank Stewart, Sweet Swing Blues on the Road, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 90:
   • The massacre that ripped apart 17 families in Parkland, Florida, five years ago on Valentine’s Day ignited a wave of student-led protests and bipartisan legislation to combat the plague of school shootings devastating the country. 2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in CNN:
2. Fourteen.

Forms

Deriveds

Valentine's · Chinese Valentine's Day · Galentine's Day · Palentine's Day

Synonyms

Saint Valentine's Day