Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unofficial US holiday observed most often on the last Friday in April, for the public planting of trees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In some of the United States, a day of each year set apart by law for the general planting of trees wherever they are needed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun US The national holiday celebrated by planting a tree; the last Friday in April.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a day designated for planting trees
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Examples
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As the nature-themed spot illustration on the home page of a popular search engine no doubt reminded you, today is Earth Day. 40 years old today, Earth Day exists to "inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment," and its creation relegated the "OG" nature lover's holiday, Arbor Day, to relative obscurity.
Earth to Bikes: "Save Me!" BikeSnobNYC 2010
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For Arbor Day, I have but one resolution: there are few ways for me to incorporate trees into my life, although this is an option for some people.
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The community of over 7,200 is surrounded by apple orchards and is the home of the national tree-planting holiday, Arbor Day.
Archive 2006-01-01 Erika D. 2006
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The community of over 7,200 is surrounded by apple orchards and is the home of the national tree-planting holiday, Arbor Day.
Job Announcement: KHN Center for the Arts Erika D. 2006
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I got confused about when Arbor Day was and wrote some of this post on Kentucky’s Arbor day…apparently, most states have a different arbor day, a day when they celebrate their particular arbor of choice in Kentucky’s case, the Tulip Poplar.
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