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holiday
1[ hol-i-dey ]
noun
- a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- any day of exemption from work ( working day ).
- a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.:
New businesses may be granted a one-year tax holiday.
- Sometimes holidays. Chiefly British. a period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation.
- an unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface.
adjective
- of or relating to a festival; festive; joyous:
a holiday mood.
- suitable for a holiday:
holiday attire.
verb (used without object)
- Chiefly British. to vacation:
to holiday at the seaside.
Holiday
2[ hol-i-dey ]
noun
- Billie Lady Day, 1915–59, U.S. jazz singer.
Holiday
1/ ˈhɒlɪˌdeɪ /
noun
- HolidayBillie19151959FUSMUSIC: jazz singer Billie. real name Eleanora Fagan; known as Lady Day. 1915–59, US jazz singer
holiday
2/ -dɪ; ˈhɒlɪˌdeɪ /
noun
- often plural
- a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation US and Canadian wordvacation
- ( as modifier )
a holiday mood
- a day on which work is suspended by law or custom, such as a religious festival, bank holiday, etc ferial
verb
- intr to spend a holiday
Other Words From
- pre·holi·day adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of holiday1
Idioms and Phrases
see busman's holiday .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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