memorial day

1. 1.

   legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war

   SynonymsDecoration Day

   Broaderlegal holiday

   Part ofMay

Questions about memorial day

What does memorial day mean?

memorial day means "legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war".

What is another word for memorial day?

Close synonyms include Decoration 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 memorial day a common word?

memorial 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.