D-day


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
D-Day
noun
  • 1 the day (6 June 1944) in the Second World War on which Allied forces invaded northern France.
  • 2 the day on which something important is to happen.
– origin from D for day + day.
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