Definition of Armistice day

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anniversary of the end of World War I (November 11, 1918)
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armistice day
n : us: formerly armistice day; called veterans day since 1954 [syn: veterans' day , armistice day, november 11]



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Noun
1. a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954
(synonym) Veterans' Day, November 11
(hypernym) legal holiday, national holiday
(part-holonym) November, Nov
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Armistice Day (which overlaps with Remembrance Day) is on 11 November and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.

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