admission day

1. 1.

   in some states of the United States: a legal holiday commemorating the day the state was admitted to the Union

   Broaderday

Questions about admission day

What does admission day mean?

admission day means "in some states of the United States: a legal holiday commemorating the day the state was admitted to the Union".

Is admission day a common word?

admission day is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.