"Evolution Day" meaning in English

See Evolution Day in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Evolution Days [plural]
Etymology: From evolution + day. From being the anniversary day of the day that On Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was originally published in 1859. From On Origin of Species being the seminal work that introduced biological evolution as the origin of the diversity of life on Earth. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|evolution|day}} evolution + day Head templates: {{en-proper-noun|s|head=Evolution Day}} Evolution Day (plural Evolution Days)
  1. (biology, holidays, celebrations) November the 24th; the day that celebrates the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, and evolutionary biology, evolution science. Wikipedia link: en:Charles Darwin, en:Evolution Day, en:On Origin of Species Categories (topical): Biology, Holidays Related terms: Arbor Day, Darwinian evolution, day, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary science, Pi Day
    Sense id: en-Evolution_Day-en-name-Br4XBQ06 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: biology, natural-sciences
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "evolution",
        "3": "day"
      },
      "expansion": "evolution + day",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From evolution + day. From being the anniversary day of the day that On Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was originally published in 1859. From On Origin of Species being the seminal work that introduced biological evolution as the origin of the diversity of life on Earth.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Evolution Days",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "head": "Evolution Day"
      },
      "expansion": "Evolution Day (plural Evolution Days)",
      "name": "en-proper-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Holidays",
          "orig": "en:Holidays",
          "parents": [
            "Observances",
            "Calendar",
            "Timekeeping",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "November the 24th; the day that celebrates the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, and evolutionary biology, evolution science."
      ],
      "id": "en-Evolution_Day-en-name-Br4XBQ06",
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "November",
          "November#English"
        ],
        [
          "evolutionary biology",
          "evolutionary biology#English"
        ],
        [
          "evolution",
          "evolution#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "holidays; celebrations; holidays; celebrations",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology, holidays, celebrations) November the 24th; the day that celebrates the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, and evolutionary biology, evolution science."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Arbor Day"
        },
        {
          "word": "Darwinian evolution"
        },
        {
          "word": "day"
        },
        {
          "word": "evolution"
        },
        {
          "word": "evolutionary biology"
        },
        {
          "word": "evolutionary science"
        },
        {
          "word": "Pi Day"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "en:Charles Darwin",
        "en:Evolution Day",
        "en:On Origin of Species"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Evolution Day"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "evolution",
        "3": "day"
      },
      "expansion": "evolution + day",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From evolution + day. From being the anniversary day of the day that On Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was originally published in 1859. From On Origin of Species being the seminal work that introduced biological evolution as the origin of the diversity of life on Earth.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Evolution Days",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "head": "Evolution Day"
      },
      "expansion": "Evolution Day (plural Evolution Days)",
      "name": "en-proper-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Arbor Day"
    },
    {
      "word": "Darwinian evolution"
    },
    {
      "word": "day"
    },
    {
      "word": "evolution"
    },
    {
      "word": "evolutionary biology"
    },
    {
      "word": "evolutionary science"
    },
    {
      "word": "Pi Day"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Biology",
        "en:Holidays"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "November the 24th; the day that celebrates the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, and evolutionary biology, evolution science."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "November",
          "November#English"
        ],
        [
          "evolutionary biology",
          "evolutionary biology#English"
        ],
        [
          "evolution",
          "evolution#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "holidays; celebrations; holidays; celebrations",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology, holidays, celebrations) November the 24th; the day that celebrates the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, and evolutionary biology, evolution science."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "en:Charles Darwin",
        "en:Evolution Day",
        "en:On Origin of Species"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Evolution Day"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Evolution Day meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.