saint's day en · NOUN
Meanings
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A day in a liturgical calendar that is observed in honour of a saint; not necessarily a holiday.
To-day is a saint's day. This is a Catholic part of Switzerland, and they have a great many holidays because they have a great many saints. There is hardly a week without some saint in it who has to be commemorated, and often there are two in the same week, and sometimes three.
1920, [Elizabeth von Arnim], In the Mountains, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 43:One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| saints' days | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
patronal feast · name day · slava
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Translations (6)
pl dzień świętego (saint's day) · uk свято (saint's day) · uk празник (saint's day) · uk день ангела (saint's day) · de Heiligenfest (saint's day) · uk храм (saint's day)