red-letter day

A very important or significant day. My college graduation was a real red-letter day for my whole family.

red-letter day

Fig. an important or significant day. (From the practice of printing holidays in red on the calendar.) Today was a red-letter day in our history. It was a red-letter day for our club.

red-letter day

A special occasion, as in When Jack comes home from his tour of duty, that'll be a red-letter day. This term alludes to the practice of marking feast days and other holy days in red on church calendars, dating from the 1400s. [c. 1700]

red-letter day

n. an important day that might well be marked in red on the calendar. Today was a red-letter day in our history.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aleixo	ə-LAY-shoo (Portuguese), a-LAY-shaw (Galician)	Portuguese, Galician
Gay	[gei]
Behrouz	-	Persian
Ljubena	-	Macedonian
Winters	['wintəz]
Taavi	TAH:-vee (Finnish)	Estonian, Finnish