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Red-letter Day

Definition: Red-letter Day

Red-letter Day

Noun

1. A memorably happy or noteworthy day.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Red-letter Day

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Literature

Red-letter Day A lucky day; a day to be recalled with delight. In almanacks, saints' days and holidays are printed in red ink, other days in black.
"That day, ... writes the doctor, was truly a red-letter day to me."- Wauters: Stanley's Emin Expedition, chap. vi. p. 111. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms within Context: Red-letter Day

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Celebration

Inauguration, installation, presentation; coronation; Lord Mayor's show; harvest-home, red-letter day; trophy &:c.; Te Deum; (thanksgiving); fete; holiday; Forefathers' Day.

Importance

Memorabilia, notabilia, great doings; red-letter day.

Repose

Day of rest, dies non, Sabbath, Lord's day, holiday, red-letter day, vacation, recess.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Red-letter Day

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Books

  • Red-Letter Day (My Community the Mail Carrier) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Modern Translations: Red-letter Day

Language Translations for "red-letter day"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

juhlapäivä (celebration, festival, holiday, holy day). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ed-letterray ayday

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Ancestral Language Translations: Red-letter Day

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

dies. (various references)

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Anagrams: Red-letter Day

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-l-r-r-t-t-y"

-3 letters: realtered, retreaded, retreated.

-4 letters: deeryard, deratted, deterred, lettered, letterer, readerly, reletter, retarded, treadled, treadler, yattered.

-5 letters: alerted, alerter, altered, alterer, dartled, datedly, deadeye, delated, delayed, delayer, deleted, derated, dratted, layered, layette, lyrated, rattled, rattler, realter, redated, related, relater, relayed, retread, retreat, treaded, treader, treadle, treated, treater, treddle.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-l-r-r-t-t-y"
 

+3 letters: tenderheartedly.

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Alternative Orthography: Red-letter Day


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 2D 6C 65 74 74 65 72      44 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100100 00101101 01101100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000100 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#45 &#108 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 002D 006C 0065 0074 0074 0065 0072      0044 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527170157871868671842386791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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