victory day
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various public holidays in various countries to commemorate victories in important battles or wars in the countries' history.
noun
9 May, celebrated as Victory Day in Russia, which commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
Example Sentences
- "Victory Day was first celebrated in the Soviet Union to mark the 20th anniversary of the German defeat in 1965. What had until then been just another workday became a public holiday which, as Russian historian Kirill Kobrin argues, was used from the outset as a political tool, with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev keen to use the event as a means of boosting the USSR’s image internationally."