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may day

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. May Day, First of May, May 1noun

   observed in many countries to celebrate the coming of spring; observed in Russia and related countries in honor of labor

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1. May Daynoun

   The first day of May, the traditional day for pagan fertility rites.

2. May Daynoun

   The first day of May, a spring festival, a celebration of the beginning of the spring.

3. May Daynoun

   The first day of May, a world-wide workers' holiday.

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1. May-daynoun

   The first of May.

   Etymology: May and day.

   ’Tis as much impossible,
   Unless we swept them from the door with cannons,
   To scatter ’em, as ’tis to make ’em sleep
   On May-day morning. William Shakespeare.

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1. May Day

   May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Festivities may also be held the night before, known as May Eve. Traditions often include gathering wildflowers and green branches, weaving floral garlands, crowning a May Queen (sometimes with a male companion), and setting up a Maypole, May Tree or May Bush, around which people dance. Bonfires are also part of the festival in some regions. Regional varieties and related traditions include Walpurgis Night in central and northern Europe, the Gaelic festival Beltane, the Welsh festival Calan Mai, and May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It has also been associated with the ancient Roman festival Floralia.In 1889, 1 May was chosen as the date for International Workers' Day by the Second International, to commemorate the Haymarket affair in Chicago and the struggle for an eight-hour working day. As a result, International Workers' Day is also called "May Day", but the two are otherwise unrelated.

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1. may day

   May Day is an international holiday, celebrated on the 1st of May, recognizing the social and economic achievements of the labor movement and also symbolizing the arrival of spring in some cultures. The origins of the observance differ greatly - in many European traditions it is linked to ancient pagan festivals celebrating spring, while in others, like International Workers' Day (often associated with Labor Day), it is a day for worker's rights and labor demonstrations.

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1. May Day

   May Day on May 1 is an ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday; it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures.

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1. may day

   Read the full text of the May Day poem by Bernard O'Dowd on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of may day in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of may day in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of may day in a Sentence

1. Josh Strauss:

   It's just a little bit of a dead cat bounce from yesterday, and to a certain degree the ISM data wasn't terrible, you're not seeing negative impact from abroad because today is May Day.

2. Andreas Geisel:

   We will not accept that some violence-seeking individuals want to deprive us of May Day as a day of peaceful demonstration, we do not give way to violence.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=may day
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/May_Day
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=may day
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=may day