name day

English

Pronunciation

  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

name day (plural name days)

  1. The feast day of the saint after whom one is named.
    • 2014, Ada Gobetti, Partisan Diary: A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
      In Italy, many individuals celebrate not only their birthday but also their name day, the feast day of the saint for whom they were named. Celebrations on one's name day are often as important as those on one's birthday; […]
  2. (finance) Synonym of ticket day.

Translations

See also

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.