Usually means: Significant, memorable, or important day.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word red-letter:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. red-letter: Merriam-Webster
  2. red-letter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. red-letter: Vocabulary.com
  4. Red-Letter, red-letter: Wordnik
  5. red-letter: Wiktionary
  6. red-letter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. red-letter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. red-letter: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Red-letter, red-letter: Dictionary.com
  10. Red-letter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Red-letter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. red-letter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Red-letter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. red-letter: FreeDictionary.org
  15. red-letter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. red-letter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. red-letter: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. red-letter: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (red-letter)

adjective:  Particularly significant or positive.
verb:  (transitive) To mark or strike with red letters (a person or an object) for particular attention.

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