commonwealth day

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   British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth

   SynonymsEmpire dayMay 24

   Broaderlegal holiday

   Part ofMay

Questions about commonwealth day

What does commonwealth day mean?

commonwealth day means "British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth".

What is another word for commonwealth day?

Close synonyms include Empire day, May 24. 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 commonwealth day a common word?

commonwealth 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.