discovery day

1. 1.

   a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

   SynonymsColumbus DayOctober 12

   Broaderlegal holiday

   Part ofOctober

Questions about discovery day

What does discovery day mean?

discovery day means "a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus".

What is another word for discovery day?

Close synonyms include Columbus Day, October 12. 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 discovery day a common word?

discovery 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.