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Definition of Empire day
1. Noun. British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth.
Generic synonyms: Legal Holiday, National Holiday, Public Holiday
Group relationships: May
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empire Day
Literary usage of Empire day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full by Edward Mark Deems (1906)
"Under all the circumstances, it seems best to the compiler to include under the
general head of Empire day, literature relating to the late Queen Victoria, ..."
2. Journal of Education by Nova Scotia Dept. of Education (1908)
"Empire day. The proper flag for Empire day is not the Nova Scotian flag, ...
At some celebrations of Empire day the orators talked as if it were a Dominion ..."
3. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"I have a communication before me now from him which concludes as follows: ' If "
Empire day " were simultaneously celebrated in all schools throughout the ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1907)
"... Clause 1—The Training of Naval Officers—Visit of German Civic Functionaries—Relations
with Russia—Debate on Disarmament in the Lords—Empire day: Mr. ..."
5. The Struggle for Imperial Unity: Recollections and Experiences by George Taylor Denison (1909)
"... CHAPTER XXII 1899: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF Empire day THE Fourth Annual Meeting
of the League in Canada was held in Ottawa on the 6th April, 1899. ..."
6. A Treasury of South African Poetry and Verse by Edward Heath Crouch (1907)
"Empire day. (MAY 24TH.) LOVE we our Motherland, The Eden home of mighty realms
to be, The nation-teeming isle; Despite her scowling strand, She wears the ..."
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