election day

1. 1.

   the day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November

   Synonymspolling day

   Broaderday

Questions about election day

What does election day mean?

election day means "the day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November".

What is another word for election day?

Close synonyms include polling 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 election day a common word?

election 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.