all souls' day

1. 1.

   a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory

   SynonymsNovember 2

   BroaderChristian holy day

   Part ofNovember

Questions about all souls' day

What does all souls' day mean?

all souls' day means "a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory".

What is another word for all souls' day?

Close synonyms include November 2. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is all souls' day a common word?

all souls' 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.