Definition of bastille day in English English dictionary
The French national holiday celebrated on 14 July each year. It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the Fête de la Fédération was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French "nation"
national French holiday commemorating the fall of the Bastille in 1789 (during the French Revolution)
a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789