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columbus day
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun columbus day has 1 sense
- columbus day(n = noun.time) discovery day, october 12 - a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus; Array is a kind of legal holiday, national holiday, public holiday
is a part of oct, october
CIDE DICTIONARY
columbus day,
The 12th day of October, on which day in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America, landing on one of the Bahama Islands (probably the one now commonly called Watling Island), and naming it “San Salvador”; -- called also Discovery Day . This day is made a legal holiday in many States of The United States. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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