Singles' Day

专有名词

英文释义

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

词形变化

Singles' Days plural Single's Day alternative Singles Day alternative

词汇关系

反义词
Valentine's Day White Day

词源

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.
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