Golden Week

English

Etymology

(Asian holidays): Borrowed from Japanese ゴールデンウィーク (Gōruden Wīku), equivalent to golden +‎ week.

Proper noun

Golden Week

1. Any of several extended holidays celebrated in China and Japan, usually early in May.
2. (US politics, colloquial) A period of early voting time during Ohio's election season in which citizens can register to vote and cast an absentee ballot on the same day.

Translations

holiday

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 黃金週 / 黄金周 (wong⁴ gam¹ zau¹), 黃金周 / 黄金周 (wong⁴ gam¹ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 黃金週 / 黄金周 (zh) (Huángjīn Zhōu), 黃金周 / 黄金周 (zh) (Huángjīn Zhōu)

• Finnish: kultainen viikko
• French: semaine d'or f, (Japan, usually) Golden Week f
• German: Goldene Woche f
• Hindi: गोल्डन वीक m (gōlḍan vīk), सुनहरा हफ़्ता m (sunharā haftā) (literally), स्वर्ण सप्ताह m (svarṇ saptāh) (literally and formal)
• Indonesian: Minggu Emas
• Japanese: ゴールデンウィーク (ja) (Gōruden Wīku), 黄金週間 (ja) (おうごんしゅうかん, Ōgon Shūkan), (abbreviation) GW (Gōruden Wīku)
• Korean: 골든 위크 (goldeun wikeu), 황금연휴 (hwanggeumyeonhyu)
• Malay: Minggu Emas
• Polish: Złoty Tydzień m
• Russian: золота́я неде́ля f (zolotája nedélja)
• Spanish: Semana Dorada f