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Definition of Name day
1. Noun. The feast day of a saint whose name one bears.
Definition of Name day
1. Noun. The feast day of the saint after whom one is named. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Name Day
Literary usage of Name day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts by Edward Fry (1892)
"If the jobber had failed to pass to the broker such a name or names by the name
day, the selling broker could have sold out the shares against him, ..."
2. Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822 by Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, Edward Sabine (1842)
"The Emperor's Name-day.—Failure of the Reindeer Hunt.—Famine. —Return by
Water.—Inhabitants of the Banks of the Greater ..."
3. Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807 by Sir Robert Ker Porter (1809)
"... regretted the present dulness even more than I; but' as a kind of fairy favour,
the name-day of the empress dowager came its annual round, and promised ..."
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