Meaning of MEMORIAL DAY
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| | Definition: | | [n] U.S., last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war |
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| | Synonyms: | | Decoration Day |
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| | See Also: | | legal holiday, May, national holiday | |
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| | Definition: | |  Memorial Day
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Me*mo"ri*al Day\
A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating
their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the
dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War (1861-65)
in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday
in most of the States. In the Southern States, the
Confederate Memorial Day is: May 30 in Virginia; April 26 in
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in North
Carolina and South Carolina; the second Friday in May in
Tennessee; June 3 in Louisiana. [U. S.]
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