Definition of January 6

1. Noun. Twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus.

Exact synonyms: Epiphany, Epiphany Of Our Lord, Three Kings' Day, Twelfth Day
Generic synonyms: Christian Holy Day
Group relationships: Jan, January

Lexicographical Neighbors of January 6

Janner
Jansen
Jansen's operation
Jansenism
Jansenist
Jansenists
Jansky-Bielschowsky disease
Janson
Januaries
January
January 0
January 1
January 19
January 20
January 6
Januarye
Januarys
Janus
Janus-faced
Janus cloth
Janus green B
Janus particle
Janus particles
Jap
Japan
Japan Socialist Party
Japan Standard Time
Japan Trench

Literary usage of January 6

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York public library (1921)
"Secretary, January 28, 1870, to january 6, 1876. Treasurer, january 6, 1876, to June 4, ... JOHN SLOANE, elected january 6, 1893, for term of two years. ..."

2. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly, United States Congress Senate (1887)
"Rend first time, january 6 23 Referred to Committee on Benevolent ... BY SENATOR SMITH OF WELLS, january 6,1887- An act to amend section one l of an act ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The question arises why the feast of the Baptism was set on january 6 by the sect of ... We should thus expect january 6 to be equally a Nile festival. ..."

4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Not it but the physical birth must be removed from january 6 to another date. ... The question arises why the feast of the Baptism was set on january 6 by ..."

5. The New York Red Book (1897)
"1852 —january 6 to April 16. 1853 —January 4 to April 15; May 24 to July 21. Clerk—Ira P. Barnes. ... 185T —january 6 to April 18. Clerk—Samuel P. Allen. ..."

6. History of Wayne County, Ohio, from the Days of the Pioneers and First by Ben Douglass (1878)
"... 1866; John Ault, from January I, 1866, to january 6, 1868; William R. Wilson, from january 6, 1868, to January I, 1872—having been re-elected in 1869; ..."

7. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1826)
"To Benjamin Cook, of Birmingham, for improvements in hinges of various descriptions—19th January; 6 months. To Abraham Robert Lorent, of Got ten - burgh, ..."

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