Meanings
election day1
plural election days
- Alternative letter-case form of Election Day.
Election Day2
plural Election Days · alternative election day
- governmentThe day on which a general election is designated to be held.
- USspecificallygovernmentThe day on which general elections are held in the United States, usually the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
Voters returned nearly 64 million mail-in ballots before Election Day, a pandemic-driven record that is certain to make for a more complicated vote count this year but could also reshape American elections for years to come.
2020 November 3, Stephanie Saul, Danny Hakim, “As Counting Begins, a Flood of Mail Ballots Complicates Vote Tallies”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2021Synonyms: polling day
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe day on which general elections are held in the United States, usually the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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election day. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/election%20day
“election day.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/election%20day. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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