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Decoration Day

Decoration Day noun: memorial Day.

Noun

Decoration Day

  1. (US, dated) Memorial Day.
    • When Carney heard they were renaming Decoration Day and moving it from May 30th to the last Monday in May, he hadn’t seen the point.2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 16

Decoration Day meaning in Tamil

Decoration Day in Tamil

நினைவு நாள்

Origin of Decoration Day

So called from the practice of decorating the military graves with flowers.

Questions about Decoration Day

What does Decoration Day mean?
Decoration Day means memorial Day.
What is Decoration Day in Tamil?
Decoration Day in Tamil is நினைவு நாள். See Decoration Day meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Decoration Day?
Decoration Day is a noun.

Words near Decoration Day in the dictionary

  1. decorated
  2. decorates
  3. decorating
  4. decoratings
  5. decoration
  6. Decoration Day
  7. decoration worker
  8. decorational
  9. decorationally
  10. decorationist
  11. decorationists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Decoration Day (page history and authors); decoration day (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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