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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event.
- noun A religious feast day; a holy day.
- noun Chiefly British A vacation. Often used in the phrase on holiday.
- intransitive verb To pass a holiday or vacation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make holiday; go pleasuring; waste time in play.
- noun A consecrated day; a religious anniversary; a day set apart for commemorating some important event or in honor of some person.
- noun An occasion of joy and gaiety.
- noun A day of exemption from labor, or of recreation and amusement; a day or a number of days during which ordinary occupations are suspended, either by an individual or by a community.
- noun Nautical, a spot carelessly left uncoated in tarring or painting a ship or its appurtenances.
- Pertaining to a festival; befitting a holiday; cheerful; joyous; hence, suited only to a holiday; dainty; not fitted for serious action or life.
- noun The Christmas season.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
- adjective Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
- noun A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See
holyday . - noun A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
- noun (Law) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
- noun any fixed or usual period for relaxation or festivity; especially, Christmas and New Year's day with the intervening time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A day on which a
festival ,religious event, ornational celebration is traditionallyobserved . - noun A day
declared free from work by thegovernment . - noun A period of one or more days taken off work by an
employee forleisure . - noun A period during which
pupils andstudents do not attend theirschool oruniversity . - noun A period taken off work or study for
travel . - verb To take a period of time away from work or study.
- verb UK To spend a period of time for travel.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
- verb spend or take a vacation
- noun a day on which work is suspended by law or custom
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Use of the term 'holiday tree' is a continuation of past practice, and does not represent a change of course on my part," he said in a statement.
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The word holiday comes from the pairing of the words holy and day.
Dedrick Muhammad: Wealth, The Gift That Keeps on Giving Dedrick Muhammad 2011
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The word holiday comes from the pairing of the words holy and day.
Dedrick Muhammad: Wealth, The Gift That Keeps on Giving Dedrick Muhammad 2011
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Great therefore was his astonishment and delight when on the evening before the term holiday Railsford put his head into the study and said --
The Master of the Shell Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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Chafee also notes that previous governors have used the term "holiday" tree.
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The word holiday comes from the pairing of the words holy and day.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dedrick Muhammad 2011
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Chafee also notes previous governors have used the term "holiday" tree.
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The word holiday originally came from Holy Day, and the root meaning of holy goes back to the Middle English holi, a variation of Old English hālig, hāleg or hāl, which translates to whole.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Leslie Davenport 2011
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Dozen Daily Deals for - Filed under: Deals 'Tis the season shop until your brains melt (or skip it all entirely, depending on your interpretation of the term holiday).
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A Dozen Daily Deals - Filed under: Deals 'Tis the season to start shopping until your brains melt (or skip it all entirely, depending on your interpretation of the term holiday).
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- AWOL
- Admission Day
- Arbor Day
- Armed Forces Day
- Armistice Day
- Army Day
- Bastille Day
- Christmas
- Colorado Day
- Constitution Day
- Decoration Day
- Dewali
- Discovery Day
- Double Ten
- Easter Monday
- Election Day
- Empire Day
- Evacuation Day
- Flag Day
- Foundation Day
- Fourth of July
- French leave
- Groundhog Day
- Halifax Day
- Halloween
- High Holiday
- High Holy Day
- Holi
- Ides of March
- Kuhio Day
- Labor Day
- Lenin Memorial Day
- Loyalty Day
- Maryland Day
- May Day
- Mecklenburg Day
- Memorial Day
- Midsummer Day
- National Aviation Day
- Navy Day
- Nevada Day
- Pan American Day
- Pascua Florida Day
- Pioneer Day
- Remembrance Day
- Roosevelt Day
- State Day
- Sunday
- Texas Independence Day
- United Nations Day
- V-E Day
- Victory Day
- West Virginia Day
- Wyoming Day
- abeyance
- abscondence
- absence
- absence without leave
- absentation
- absenteeism
- absenting
- anniversaries
- bank holiday
- break
- caesura
- cease-fire
- celebrating
- celebration
- ceremony
- cheerful
- church feast
- coffee break
- comfortable
- commemoration
- cut
- day of festivities
- day off
- default
- departure
- disappearance
- downtime
- dressing ship
- drop
- escape
- event
- excused absence
- fair
- fanfare
- fanfaronade
- feast
- feast day
- ferial
- festal
- festival
- festival day
- festivity
- fete
- fete day
- fixed feast
- fleeing
- flourish of trumpets
- furlough
- gala
- gala day
- gay
- go on furlough
- go on leave
- half time
- half-time intermission
- hesitation
- high day
- holy day
- hooky
- interim
- interlude
- intermezzo
- intermission
- intermittence
- interregnum
- interruption
- interval
- joyous
- jubilee
- lapse
- layoff
- leave
- leave of absence
- leaving
- legal holiday
- letup
- liberty
- lull
- make holiday
- marking the occasion
- memorialization
- memory
- nonappearance
- nonattendance
- observance
- off-time
- ovation
- paid holiday
- paid vacation
- pause
- plateau
- playday
- playtime
- point of repose
- quiet
- quiet spell
- recess
- red-letter day
- rejoicing
- relief
- religious rites
- remembrance
- remission
- respite
- rest
- restful
- resting point
- revel
- rite
- ritual observance
- running away
- sabbatical
- sabbatical leave
- sabbatical year
- salute
- salvo
- shore leave
- sick leave
- solemn observance
- solemnization
- stand-down
- stay
- suspension
- take a holiday
- take leave
- testimonial
- testimonial banquet
- testimonial dinner
- time off
- time out
- toast
- tribute
- triumph
- truancy
- truantism
- truce
- unexcused absence
- vacation
- vacational
- weekend
courier12 commented on the word holiday
Great classic movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant!
December 14, 2006
lampbane commented on the word holiday
"I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday"
August 29, 2008
uselessness commented on the word holiday
It's a jolly 'oliday with Mary!
Mary makes your 'eart so light
When the day is grey an' ordinary
Mary makes the sun shine bright!
December 18, 2009