English

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
 
11.11: 光棍节
 
Commons:Category
Wikimedia Commons has more media related to:
Wikidata has structured data related to:

Wikidata

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

Calque of Chinese 光棍節 / 光棍节 (guānggùnjié). From being a day for single people who are not in a relationship, the complement of Valentine's Day. From Chinese slang for a bachelor without familial branches being a stick, and the set of ones in the date of 11/11 being a set of sticks, a set of singles. Originating at the University of Nanjing in the 1990s as Bachelors' Day, and popularized as a shopping event day by Alibaba in the 2000s.

Proper noun

edit

Singles' Day (plural Singles' Days)

  1. (holidays, countable) November 11th, a day for shopping and celebrating not being in a relationship, originating in China, the shopping event has spread worldwide.

Synonyms

edit

Antonyms

edit

Hypernyms

edit

Translations

edit

See also

edit
other observances on 11 November
  NODES
Note 1