commencement day

1. 1.

   the day on which university degrees are conferred

   Synonymsdegree day

   Broaderday

Questions about commencement day

What does commencement day mean?

commencement day means "the day on which university degrees are conferred".

What is another word for commencement day?

Close synonyms include degree day. 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 commencement day a common word?

commencement 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.