noun
a legal holiday in the United States
• Syn: ↑Fourth of July, ↑July 4
• Hypernyms: ↑legal holiday, ↑national holiday, ↑public holiday
• Part Holonyms: ↑July
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noun [noncount]
: a holiday celebrating the anniversary of a country's independence from another country that ruled it in the past; especially : July 4 celebrated as a legal holiday in the U.S. in honor of the day when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776
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4 July, celebrated in the US as the anniversary of the day in 1776 when the Americans declared themselves independent of Britain
see also ↑Fourth of July
Useful english dictionary. 2012.