heritage days
Tradition honoring events
Heritage days are designated occasions when cultural, ethnic, or national traditions are celebrated and preserved.
Schools, communities, and organizations hold heritage days to showcase traditional foods, clothing, music, and customs: The school's heritage day featured booths representing different countries.
The term applies both to official observances and informal celebrations of ancestral identity.
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
- national holidayOfficial day of observance
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- local traditionsCommunity's established practices
- cultureCollective social practices
cultural pride · festival · open house · ancestry · ancestral homeland · family reunion · commemoration · parade · traditional dress · costumes · folklore · folk dancing · community · museum · living history · historical · old town · roots
- cultural eventscultural festivals, folk festival, folk festivals, ethnic festival, cultural events
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, archive, monument, landmark
- public eventsfestivals, festival, light shows, parades, carnival
- school eventsgraduation, commencement, graduation day, graduation ceremony, kindergarten graduation
- Local Celebrationslocal festivals, harvest festivals, regional fairs, county fairs, state fairs
- Portuguese diasporaPortuguese-American, Portuguese language, New Bedford, Providence, Newark
heritage, days, heiress, heirloom, inherit, inheritance, inheritor, inherited, inheriting