New Year's Eve

English

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Proper noun

New Year's Eve (plural New Year's Eves)

2. 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.

   Synonym: New Year's (New Year's Eve sense)

   Holonym: New Year's (holiday-time sense)

   Coordinate term: New Year's Day

   Near-synonym: watchnight (a precise differentiation is explained there)

   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.

   • 2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68:

     The town of Tweed Heads in the north of New South Wales merges seamlessly into Coolangatta on Queensland's Gold Coast. The two states are ostensibly in the same time zone, but New South Wales observes daylight saving, and Queensland doesn't. That means the twin towns have managed to carve out a peculiar niche as somewhere you can celebrate New Year's Eve twice. Start in Tweed Heads, then stroll over into Coolangatta, and the party starts again an hour later.

Related terms

• new year, new me
• New Year's resolution

Translations

holiday on the last day of the year

• Afrikaans: Oujaarsaand
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (Gregorian calendar) 新年夜 (xīnniányè), (Lunar calendar) 除夕 (zh) (chúxī), 跨年 (zh) (kuànián)

• Czech: silvestr (cs) m
• Danish: nytårsaften (da)
• Dutch: Oudejaarsavond, oudjaar (nl) n
• Egyptian: (ꜥrq-rnpt m)
• Esperanto: Silvestro (eo)
• Estonian: vana-aasta õhtu sg
• Finnish: (day) uudenvuodenaatto (fi), (celebration) uusivuosi (fi)
• French: Saint-Sylvestre (fr) f
• Galician: Noitevella f, Ano Vello m
• Georgian: ახალი წელი (axali c̣eli)
• German: Silvester (de) n; Altjahrsabend (de) m (dated)
• Greek: παραμονή Πρωτοχρονιάς f (paramoní Protochroniás)
• Hungarian: szilveszter (hu)
• Icelandic: gamlárskvöld n
• Indonesian: Malam Tahun Baru
• Irish: Oíche Chaille f, Oíche Chinn Bliana f, Oíche na Seanbhliana f, Oíche na Coda Móire f
• Italian: vigilia di Capodanno m, capodanno (it)
• Japanese: 大晦日 (ja) (おおみそか, ōmisoka)
• Kazakh: Жаңа жыл қарсаңы (Jaña jyl qarsañy)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃឡើងស័ក (tŋay laəŋ sak), សម្ពច្ឆរច្ឆិន្ន (sampoaccʰahraccʰən)
• Korean: 신년전야(新年前夜) (ko) (sinnyeonjeonya), 섣달그믐 (ko) (seotdalgeumeum), 대회(大晦) (ko) (daehoe), 제야(除夜) (ko) (jeya), 제석(除夕) (ko) (jeseok)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: Vecgada vakars m
• Lithuanian: Naujųjų mẽtų i̇̀švakarės f pl
• Maltese: Lejliet l-Ewwel tas-Sena
• Mansi:

  Northern Mansi: йильпи та̄л э̄т (jilʹpi tāl è̄t)

• Navajo: náhááh bitłʼééʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nyttårsaften (no) m

• Polish: sylwester (pl) m
• Portuguese: véspera de ano novo f, noite de São Silvestre f
• Romanian: revelion (ro) n, Ajunul Anului Nou n, noaptea de Anul Nou f, noaptea de Revelion f, Revelion n
• Russian: кану́н но́вого го́да m (kanún nóvovo góda)
• Scottish Gaelic: Oidhche Challainn f
• Serbo-Croatian: silvestrovo n, stara godina f
• Slovak: Silvester m
• Spanish: Nochevieja (es) f (especially Spain), víspera de año nuevo f
• Swedish: nyårsafton (sv) c
• Tagalog: Bisperas ng Bagong Taon
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yılbaşı gecesi
• Ukrainian: Ще́дрий ве́чір m (Ščédryj véčir)
• Vietnamese: giao thừa (vi)
• Welsh: Nos Galan f

See also

• ball drop, fireworks, champagne (widely observed New Year's Eve traditions)

Further reading

• New Year's Eve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia