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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 ).
Synonyms: ,
- 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/ ˈɒɪˌɪ /
noun
- HolidayBillie19151959FUSMUSIC: jazz singer Billie. real name Eleanora Fagan; known as Lady Day. 1915–59, US jazz singer
holiday
2/ -dɪ; ˈɒɪˌɪ /
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 51Թ Forms
- ·DZi·岹 adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of holiday1
Idioms and Phrases
see busman's holiday .Example Sentences
Michael Bolton had a serious health scare over the holidays when doctors found a brain tumor that required emergency surgery.
However, high pressure remains close by right through the rest of the week and into the holiday weekend, keeping conditions nice and settled.
After a peak in heat on Thursday, temperatures will start to gradually fall over the bank holiday weekend to around average by Monday.
"We're really proud of what the event has become, and what it brings to the islands, and to people's holidays. I'm sure it creates memories to last a lifetime."
Jurors heard he also got thousands of pounds worth of Barrhead Travel holiday vouchers which allowed him to go on trips to New York and Lanzarote.
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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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