Usually means: Celebration of saint's designated day.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. name day: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. name day: Merriam-Webster
  3. name day: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. name day: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. name day: Collins English Dictionary
  6. name day: Vocabulary.com
  7. name-day: Wordnik
  8. name day: Wiktionary
  9. name day: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. name day: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. name day: Dictionary.com
  12. Name-day, Name day: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. name day: Rhymezone
  14. name day: FreeDictionary.org
  15. name day: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. name day: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. name day: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Name Day: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (name day)

▸ noun:  The feast day of the saint after whom one is named.
▸ noun:  (finance) Synonym of ticket day

Similar:
name-sake, hagionym, nicknamee, saint, honor name, given name, death-name, selfname, font name, named person, more...

Opposite:
unbirthday, non-name day

Phrases:
name the day, more...

Adjectives:
fast, easter, octave, pace, midsummer, midweek, sabbatical, sabbatic, dominical, antepaschal, paschal

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Similar:
name-sake, hagionym, nicknamee, saint, honor name, given name, death-name, selfname, font name, named person, more...

Opposite:
unbirthday, non-name day

Phrases:
name the day, more...

Adjectives:
fast, easter, octave, pace, midsummer, midweek, sabbatical, sabbatic, dominical, antepaschal, paschal



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