V-Day

[vee-dey]

noun

1. a day of final military victory.

V-Day

noun

1. a day nominated to celebrate victory, as in V-E Day or V-J Day in World War II

Word History and Origins

Origin of V-Day¹

First recorded in 1940–45; short for Victory Day

Example Sentences

As an activist, Solters worked with the groups One Billion Rising and V-Day in campaigns dedicated to ending violence against women.

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North Kore calls the date “the V-Day” or “the War Victory Day.”

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In his memoir, he said that the public viewed the death of bin Laden “as the closest we’d likely ever get to a V-Day.”

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Two years after that success she founded V-Day, which has raised piles of money to fight violence against women and girls around the world: Galentine, with gravitas.

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Then V-Day came and kicked things up several notches.

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