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V-Day

[ vee-dey ]

noun

  1. a day of final military victory.


V-Day

noun

  1. a day nominated to celebrate victory, as in V-E Day or V-J Day in World War II
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of V-Day1

First recorded in 1940–45; short for Victory Day
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Example Sentences

As an activist, Solters worked with the groups One Billion Rising and V-Day in campaigns dedicated to ending violence against women.

North Kore calls the date “the V-Day” or “the War Victory Day.”

In his memoir, he said that the public viewed the death of bin Laden “as the closest we’d likely ever get to a V-Day.”

Two years after that success she founded V-Day, which has raised piles of money to fight violence against women and girls around the world: Galentine, with gravitas.

Hint: The book would make a fab V-Day gift!

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