red letter day
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A particularly significant day; a day of personal or sectarian celebration.
Example Sentences
- "The only red-letter day occurring in July, is the twenty-fifth, called St James's Day."
- "But the monsters who interrupt men in the middle of a sentence are to be found everywhere; and they are always practising. Red-letter days or black-letter days, festival or fast, makes no difference to them."
- "Monday was a red letter day for her. She accomplished a lot and had fun doing it."
- "We saw losses for days in a row, but Black Tuesday was the worst red letter day of them all."
- ""In the meantime, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre at Chicago was a red-letter day in the gangster wars.""
- "So I assume that we all have some red letter days that are precious to our memories—maybe a first date, a wedding, a gift, a word of encouragement, a vacation, a graduation or a trip to an interesting place. I had one of those red letter days when I was a young boy, perhaps five or six years old."