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holiday

1

[ hol-i-dey ]

noun

  1. a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  2. any day of exemption from work ( working day ).

    Synonyms: break, vacation

  3. a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.:

    New businesses may be granted a one-year tax holiday.

  4. a religious feast day; holy day, especially any of several usually commemorative holy days observed in Judaism.
  5. Sometimes holidays. Chiefly British. a period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation.
  6. an unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface.


adjective

  1. of or relating to a festival; festive; joyous:

    a holiday mood.

  2. suitable for a holiday:

    holiday attire.

verb (used without object)

  1. Chiefly British. to vacation:

    to holiday at the seaside.

Holiday

2

[ hol-i-dey ]

noun

  1. Billie Lady Day, 1915–59, U.S. jazz singer.

Holiday

1

/ ˈhɒlɪˌdeɪ /

noun

  1. HolidayBillie19151959FUSMUSIC: jazz singer Billie. real name Eleanora Fagan; known as Lady Day. 1915–59, US jazz singer
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holiday

2

/ -dɪ; ˈhɒlɪˌdeɪ /

noun

  1. often plural
    1. a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation US and Canadian wordvacation
    2. ( as modifier )

      a holiday mood

  2. a day on which work is suspended by law or custom, such as a religious festival, bank holiday, etc ferial
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verb

  1. intr to spend a holiday
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • pre·holi·day adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of holiday1

First recorded before 950; Middle English; Old English hāligdæg; equivalent to holy + day
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Word History and Origins

Origin of holiday1

Old English hāligdæg, literally: holy day
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Idioms and Phrases

see busman's holiday .
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Example Sentences

Day a state holiday, 21 years after President Reagan made it a federal holiday.

Not long after the holiday presents are put away and the guests have gone home, another season begins.

While traveling this holiday season, a relative and I were pulled over by a police officer.

Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.

Gävle Goat must be dreading the imminent holiday and his fifty-fifty chance of destruction.

Ascension being a holiday here, all we pianists made up a walking party out to Tiefurt, about two miles distant.

For instance, few workmen will take a holiday; they prefer a "day's out" or "play."

Isaacson did not visit Mrs. Chepstow again before he left London for his annual holiday.

Indeed, it made me understand for the first time that even a Bank Holiday need not be a day of wrath and mourning.

In 1878 Mathieson and I took a short holiday together and crossed to Ireland.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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