Mother's Day

Definition: Mother's Day

Mother's Day

Noun

1. Second Sunday in May.

Modern Usage: Mother's Day

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I am no more afraid of the Grim Reaper than a protestant on Mother's Day. (The Life of David Gale; writing credit: Charles Randolph) There's Father's Day, there's Mother's Day, there's no Lesbian Lover's Day! (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) (to Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch) The way your wife & her strumpet of a mother push you through the hoop! As far as I can see, American men have been totally emasculated- they're like slaves! They die like flies from coronary thrombosis while their women sit under hairdryers eating chocolates & arranging for every 2nd Tuesday to be some sort of Mother's Day!! (It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World; writing credit: Tania Rose)
Movie/TV Titles	Love George Happy Mother's Day (1973) A Happy Mother's Day (1963) Mother's Day (1958) Saturday Night Live: Mother's Day Special (2001) Olsen Twins Mother's Day Special (1993)
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Specialty Definition: Mother's Day

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Mother's Day is a holiday in several nations around the world, in the United States celebrated on the second Sunday in May, to celebrate motherhood. Other countries use different dates (see below). Often the mother receives gifts.

Origin

Mother's Day in the United States was first proclaimed in 1870 in Boston by Julia Ward Howe, and Howe called for it to be observed each year nationally in 1872. As originally envisioned, Howe's "Mother's Day" was a call for Pacifism and disarmament by women. Early "Mother's Day" was mostly marked by women's peace groups. A common early activity was the meeting of groups of mothers whose sons had fought or died on opposite sides of the American Civil War.

In 1907 Mother's Day was first celebrated in a small private way by Anna Jarvis in Grafton, West Virginia, to commemorate the anniversary of her mother's death two years earlier on May 9, 1905. Jarvis's mother, also named Anna Jarvis, had been active in Mother's Day campaigns for peace and worker's safety and health. The younger Jarvis launched a quest to get wider recognition of Mother's Day. The celebration organized by Jarvis on May 10, 1908 involved 407 children with their mothers at the Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton. The following campaign to recognize Mother's Day was financed by clothing merchant John Wanamaker. As the custom of Mother's Day spread, the emphasis shifted from the pacificism and reform movements to a general appreciation of mothers. The first official recognition of the holiday was by West Virginia in 1910. A proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day was signed by U.S. president Woodrow Wilson on May 14, 1914.

A tradition calls for the wearing of carnations on Mother's Day—a red one if one's mother is alive, and white if she has died.

Mother's Day (US) will fall on the following dates:

2004: May 9
2005: May 8
2006: May 14
2007: May 13
2008: May 11
2009: May 10
2010: May 9

Date

Norway: the second Sunday in February
Lebanon: first day of Spring
South Africa: first Sunday in May
Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Belgium, Japan, United States: the second Sunday in May
much of South America (as well as Mexico), Bahrain, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates: May 10
France, Sweden: last Sunday in May
Argentina: the second Sunday in October
Spain, Portugal: December 8

See also: Father's Day

External link

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mother's Day."

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Commercial Usage: Mother's Day

Domain	Title
Books	Ideals Mother's Day 2000 (Ideals Mothers Day, 2000) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Mother's Day

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Mother's Day, 1936. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Mother's Day

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Gifts are given mainly during the Christmas holidays, on birthdays and weddings and, to a lesser extent, during the Chinese holidays of the Lunar New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival, Valentine's Day, Secretaries' Week and Mother's Day. Traditionally, red packets of cash are given to children and unmarried adults during the Lunar New Year; for the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is moon-cakes and lanterns for children; cash and jewelry (particularly gold jewelry) are given at weddings. (references)
Economic History	Colombia	Promotional seasonal "sales" have also become popular in Colombia throughout the year, usually on special holidays such as Valentine's Day (which is a different day in Colombia than in the U.S.), Father's Day, Mother's Day, etc. (references)
Human Rights	Mexico	On May 10, federal police officers Jorge Encarnacion Perez Barreto and Fabian Garcia Venegas opened fire on persons at a Mother's Day party. (references)
Travel	Mexico	These include May 10 - Mother's Day, and December 12 - Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe, the official Patron Saint of Mexico. (references)
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Speeches: Mother's Day

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Soon we'll be able to carry all the phone calls on Mother's Day on a single strand of fiber the width of a human hair.
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Modern Translation: Mother's Day

Language		Translations for "Mother's Day"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		母親節 . (various references)

Czech		svátek matek. (various references)

Dutch		Moederdag. (various references)

Esperanto		Tago de la Patrinoj. (various references)

Finnish		äitienpäivä. (various references)

German		muttertag. (various references)

Hungarian		anyák napja (mothering sunday). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		マグマ溜り (Macedonia, machine, machine gun, machine language, machine-room, machine-vision, magma reservoir, marshmallow, Maserati, Massachusetts, McGraw Hill, mother complex, Mother Goose, mother tape, mothering, motherland, Oedipus complex, sexual attraction to one's mother), 母の日 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		マザーズデー , ははのひ. (various references)

Pig Latin		other'smay ayday

Turkish		anneler günü. (various references)

Vietnamese		ng� y lễ các b� mẹ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Mother's Day

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-a-d-e-h-m-o-r-s-t-y"
	-3 letters: headmost, homestay, hydrates, shamoyed, smothery, teraohms.
	-4 letters: dearths, dehorts, destroy, earshot, hamster, hardest, hardset, hatreds, hydrase, hydrate, maestro, mastery, methods, modesty, mothers, mothery, radomes, roasted, samoyed, shorted, smarted, smother, someday, stardom, stormed, strayed, streamy, stroyed, teraohm, thermos, threads, thready, torsade, trashed, tsardom.
	-5 letters: adores, ahorse, armets, ashore, dasher, daters, dearth, deaths, deathy, dehort.
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