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Definition of Commencement day
1. Noun. The day on which university degrees are conferred.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commencement Day
Literary usage of Commencement day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D.: First Provost of by Horace Wemyss Smith (1880)
"THE Commencement-Day of 1759 was the only important event connected with the
College which we have to note for that year. The newspapers of the time gave us ..."
2. A Run Through the United States, During the Autumn of 1840 by Archibald Montgomery Maxwell (1841)
"LETTER V. Commencement-day at Cambridge University—Breakfast at the Hotel ...
This has been " Commencement-day" at the University of Cambridge ; and I ..."
3. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1917)
"The Commencement charge was often paid not on commencement day, but on quarter
day; and presumably the above dates were quarter days. ..."
4. Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical: Illustrative of the by William Henry Foote (1846)
"... to the chapel, where the exercises of commencement day were opened with prayer
by the Rev. Professor Mitchell, of the Presbyterian church, ..."
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