innocents' day

1. 1.

   December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem

   SynonymsHoly Innocents' Day

   BroaderChristian holy day

Questions about innocents' day

What does innocents' day mean?

innocents' day means "December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem".

What is another word for innocents' day?

Close synonyms include Holy Innocents' 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 innocents' day a common word?

innocents' 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.