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Mayday   /mˈeɪdeɪ/   Listen
Mayday

noun
1.
An internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider).





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"Mayday" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the evening before the first of May. Now one hundred years ago, Mayday was looked forward to with glee by all English children living in the country. Early that morning the lads and lasses of the village, gaily decked with flowers, would go merrily singing from house to house. In their midst would walk the Queen of the May, or sometimes, seated in a chair ...
— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) - Classic Tales And Old-Fashioned Stories • Various


Words linked to "Mayday" :   distress call, distress signal


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