| 单词 | day of the dead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDay of the Dead Day of the Dead n. All Souls' Day, 2 November, as celebrated in various European and Latin American countries; (now usually, also as Days of the Dead) the Mexican holiday honouring the dead which is observed on this day and on the surrounding days, including All Saints' Day, 1 November. [Compare French jour des morts (c1529 or earlier in Middle French), Spanish día de los difuntos (2nd half of the 16th cent. or earlier), día de los muertos (1st half of the 17th cent. or earlier), Italian giorno dei morti (2nd half of the 17th cent. or earlier), post-classical Latin dies mortuorum (1576 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > specific Day of the Dead1834 Columbus Day1892 Australia Day1911 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Souls (2 November) > [noun] Soul-mass Day1389 All Soulsa1400 Day of the Dead1834 soul mass1876 1803 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 6 169 They met for the first time on the Jour des Morts, literally ‘the Day of the Dead’, but which, in our English Calendar, is strangely translated by ‘All Souls Day’!] 1834 Albion 8 Feb. 48/1 (heading) The Day of the Dead in Paris. 1888 Wisconsin State Reg. 21 Jan. (heading) The Day of the Dead in Mexico. Most of the candy stands have an assortment of skulls in white or cream hued sugar. 1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me ii. i. 100 On the two Days of the Dead, November 1 (Día de los Difuntas Chiquitas ) and November 2 (Día de los Difuntas Grandes ), Mexicans in California bring flowers to the graves, and lunches, and say prayers for their loved ones. 1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Nov. a15 The Day of the Dead—actually the three-day period from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2—has remained a moment of vivid remembrance of deceased family members and of renewed contact with the beliefs that underpinned indigenous American cultures. 2008 Times (Nexis) 9 Apr. 23 He is off to Guatemala to celebrate the Day of the Dead, with its mixture of Roman Catholicism and indigenous Mayan belief. < as lemmas |
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