Definitions for D-day

D-day D-day

Spelling: [dee-dey]
IPA: /ˈdiˌdeɪ/

D-Day is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in D-day (-addy).

Definitions for D-day

noun

  1. Military. the day, usually unspecified, set for the beginning of a planned attack.
  2. June 6, 1944, the day of the invasion of western Europe by Allied forces in World War II.
  3. Informal. any day of special significance, as one marking an important event or goal.

Origin of D-day

Dutch (for day) + day; the same pattern as H-hour

Examples for D-day

Hollywood would never grossly distort the Civil War or D-day.

The D-day landings marked the final and long anticipated leap from England across the Channel to the Continent.

The cost in lives, ships, and weapons of that D-day assault was awful.

Pre-eminent naval historian Craig L. Symonds talks about how the Allies devised, executed, and then survived the D-day invasion.

Williams interviewed and profiled four D-day veterans, showing his sensitive side without ever seeming maudlin.

D-day was 70 years ago, and to midshipmen of today, it is all but ancient history.

D-day was the first successful opposed landing on French territory—the country was held by the Nazis—in over 800 years.

Marc Wortman:  Give us a sense of the scale of what took place during the D-day landings on the morning of June 6, 1944.

Did Churchill and Roosevelt agree about the when, where, and how of D-day and the invasion of France?

There is a tendency to conceive of the Allied landings on D-day as a single event, but in fact it was just the first step.

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