"big day" meaning in All languages combined

See big day on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: big days [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} big day (plural big days)
  1. The day of one's wedding. Categories (topical): Marriage
    Sense id: en-big_day-en-noun-h1I9BxMh Disambiguation of Marriage: 56 26 18
  2. Any day on which something significant or momentous happens. Translations (any day on which something significant happens): suuri päivä (Finnish), tärkeä päivä (Finnish), grand jour [masculine] (French), großer Tag [masculine] (German), gran giorno [masculine] (Italian), stora dagen [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-big_day-en-noun-tWTcUT9R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 56 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 55 41 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 4 57 39 Disambiguation of 'any day on which something significant happens': 3 88 9
  3. A birding event in which teams compete against one another to see as many different bird species as possible in a certain area over the course of a day or part thereof.
    Sense id: en-big_day-en-noun-5n6HsDnE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: red letter day

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for big day meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)

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