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Presidents' Day

Presidents' Day proper noun: a day celebrating George Washington and other presidents, a federal holiday in the United States, celebrated on the third Monday of February (formerly on the 22nd of February).

Proper noun

Presidents' Day

  1. A day celebrating George Washington and other presidents, a federal holiday in the United States, celebrated on the third Monday of February (formerly on the 22nd of February).
    • Two weeks later, on Presidents' Day, while Nancy was away on a speaking trip in Texas, I decided to try again and sent Gorbachev a seven-page, handwritten letter with a set of new proposals that I hoped would bring the still-deadlocked Geneva talks off dead center while responding to his proposals.1990, Ronald Reagan, An American Life, Pocket Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 656

Synonyms of Presidents' Day

Questions about Presidents' Day

What does Presidents' Day mean?
Presidents' Day means a day celebrating George Washington and other presidents, a federal holiday in the United States, celebrated on the third Monday of February (formerly on the 22nd of February).
What part of speech is Presidents' Day?
Presidents' Day is a proper noun.

Words near Presidents' Day in the dictionary

  1. presidentrices
  2. presidentrix
  3. presidents
  4. presidents pro tem
  5. presidents pro tempore
  6. Presidents' Day
  7. presidents-elect
  8. presidentship
  9. presidentships
  10. presider
  11. presiders

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