Mayday n : an internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider)

English

Etymology

From m'aider (short for « Venez m'aider! », "Come help me!")

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪdeɪ

Noun

mayday!

1. An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft

See also

• May Day

Mayday or May Day may refer to:

• Mayday (distress signal)
• May Day, a holiday on or around May 1
• Mayday University Hospital, a hospital in Croydon

In Botany:

• Bird Cherry, May Day tree, Prunus padus

In Music:

• May Day (concert), is a Memorial Day weekend rock concert in Indianapolis, Indiana. It's one of the area's many festivities surrounding the Indianapolis 500.
• May Day (song) by Dispatch off their album "Silent Steeples"
• May Day, a punk rock band from San Luis Obispo
• ¡Mayday!, a hip hop group
• Mayday (music), an electronic music festival
• Mayday (American band)
• Mayday (album), a record by Hugh Cornwell
• Mayday (Awkward Thought album)'', an album by New York hardcore band, Awkward Thought
• Mayday, an album by Chicago pop-punk band, The Cells
• Mayday (Taiwanese band), an alternative rock band also known as 五月天 Wǔ Yuè Tiān in Chinese.
• Derrick May (musician), American artist also known as Mayday
• Mayday is a song by The Libertines which appears on the I Get Along EP as well as their greatest hits album.
• May Day!, a song by Elvis Perkins from his debut album Ash Wednesday

In Film and television:

• May Day (James Bond), a character in the film A View to a Kill
• Mayday (film), a 2005 film starring Aidan Quinn
• Mayday (TV series) (or Air Crash Investigation for outside Canada), a Canadian documentary show which dramatizes and discusses well-known airplane disasters
• Sam "Mayday" Malone, character on the American television show Cheers

In Literature:

• Mayday (novel), a novel written by Nelson DeMille
• Mayday! is the British/Commonwealth title of the novel The Mediterranean Caper, by Clive Cussler
• "Mayday" (short story), a short story by William Faulkner
• "May Day" (short story), a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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