New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve proper noun: the holiday occurring on the last day of the year, celebrated on December 31st in cultures following the Gregorian calendar; this entire 24-hour calendar day or (often) specifically its evening.
Proper noun
New Year's Eve (plural New Year's Eves)
- The holiday occurring on the last day of the year, celebrated on December 31st in cultures following the Gregorian calendar; this entire 24-hour calendar day or (often) specifically its evening.
- Holonym: New Year's (holiday-time sense)
- Near-synonym: watchnight (a precise differentiation is explained there)
- Synonyms:
- New Year's, watchnight[Appendix:Glossary
New Year's Eve meaning in Tagalog, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese
New Year's Eve in Tagalog
- holiday on the last day of the year
- Bisperas ng Bagong Taon
New Year's Eve in Indonesian
- holiday on the last day of the year
- Malam Tahun Baru
New Year's Eve in Thai
- holiday on the last day of the year
- วันส่งท้ายปีเก่า
New Year's Eve in Vietnamese
- holiday on the last day of the year
- giao thừa
Examples of New Year's Eve in a sentence
- New Year's Eve day [denotes the daytime portion of this calendar day]
- New Year's Eve traditions
- We spent New Year's Eve eating sweets, drinking champagne, and watching the countdown!
- I have to work on New Year's Eve day, but then I'm going to my friends' house for the evening.
- That means the twin towns have managed to carve out a peculiar niche as somewhere you can celebrate New Year's Eve twice.2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68:
Synonyms of New Year's Eve
- New Year's
- watchnight[Appendix:Glossary
Forms of New Year's Eve
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Questions about New Year's Eve
- What does New Year's Eve mean?
- New Year's Eve means the holiday occurring on the last day of the year, celebrated on December 31st in cultures following the Gregorian calendar; this entire 24-hour calendar day or (often) specifically its evening.
- What is New Year's Eve in Tagalog?
- New Year's Eve in Tagalog is Bisperas ng Bagong Taon. See New Year's Eve meaning in Tagalog.
- How do you use New Year's Eve in a sentence?
- New Year's Eve day [denotes the daytime portion of this calendar day]
- What part of speech is New Year's Eve?
- New Year's Eve is a proper noun.
Words near New Year's Eve in the dictionary
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