Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

black saturday

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English

Syllables
black- sat-ur-day
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of Holy Saturday (“the Saturday before Easter”).

noun

February 7, 2009, a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia, which killed 173 people.

Australian usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

Black Saturdays (plural)

Synonyms

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What does black saturday mean?
Synonym of Holy Saturday (“the Saturday before Easter”).

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