NOUN
- observed in many countries to celebrate the coming of spring; observed in Russia and related countries in honor of labor
How To Use May Day In A Sentence
- Not only is it blighted by foul conditions but it also bears no relation to the original concept of a May Day celebration. Times, Sunday Times
- It was a warm May day, so we were sitting at a bistro table outside, having biscotti and chai.
- At least five people were injured during a May Day march in Sri Lanka when police fired tear gas.
- Our future plans included attending Saturday's May Day march and leafleting an estate.
- At the first May Day demonstration in Vienna in 1890, 200,000 marchers emerged into the public arena.
- The annual May Day demonstrations got off to a violent start overnight when police clashed with protestors in Berlin and the northern city of Hamburg.
- But barely a week later during May Day celebrations, he said the government would seize land from white farmers who treated their workers badly.
- Puritans in England and the New World called for banning the maypole and May Day festivals. A Renegade History of the United States
- To do justice to the many conflicting and various unuttered messages that were being sent here, you'd rightly have to look at this the way we used to look at the lineups and hierarchies and seating positions on May Day in Red Square.
- The other chapter, a survey of "Festivals of Revolution," locates "the celebratory May Day, a festive seizure of working-class initiative that encompassed demands for shorter hours, improvement in conditions, and socialist agitation and organization" against the backdrop of the traditional spring calendar of class confrontation. Happy May Day