saint's day

English

Noun

saint's day (plural saints' days)

1. A day in a liturgical calendar that is observed in honour of a saint; not necessarily a holiday.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎^[1]:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

Hypernyms

• feast day, holy day

Hyponyms

• name day, patronal feast, slava (among South Slavs)

Translations

saint's day

• German: Heiligenfest n
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Further reading

• calendar of saints on Wikipedia.Wikipedia