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holiday

Definition

  • noun: a special day of celebration
  • noun: a day on which one is exempt from work
  • verb: to spend a holiday in or at a particular place
  • verb: to take or spend a holiday especially in travel or at a resort
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: vacation, cheerful, joyous

Examples

  • Do you have any plans for the 'holiday weekend'? [=a weekend that is preceded or followed by a holiday]

  • She spent two weeks 'on holiday' [=('US') 'on vacation'] in Italy.

  • The stock market is closed tomorrow because it's a 'holiday'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) I'm sure you're right... but sometimes I wish you'd just say... "Boy, that sucks... and I'm really sorry it happened to you. " - Do you have them for every high holiday? - Yeah. The Passover one says, "What makes this tuchis unlike any other?" - My son, the joker. Thinks it makes up for the fact (..)
    2005 In Her Shoes