Anzac Day

noun

1. April 25, a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand commemorating the Anzac landing on Gallipoli, Turkey, in 1915, the first major engagement of Australian and New Zealand forces in World War I.

Anzac Day

noun

1. 25 April, a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand commemorating the Anzac landing at Gallipoli in 1915

Example Sentences

Military cadets attend an Anzac Day dawn service at Coogee Beach in Sydney.

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Trading was closed in Australia for a national holiday, Anzac Day.

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Police said there was no threat to Thursday’s events for Anzac Day, when thousands gather for dawn services and street marches around Australia to commemorate the nation’s war dead.

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“Anzac Day has never asked us to exalt in the glories of war. Anzac Day asks us to stand against the erosion of time and to hold on to their names,” Albanese added.

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Both leaders will commemorate Anzac Day at Isurava on Thursday, April 25 — the date in 1915 when the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on Turkey in an ill-fated campaign that provided the soldiers’ first combat of World War I.

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