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

  • (..) Those are black storm broadheads. Razor sharp. What kind of crazy person celebrates Noam Chomsky's birthday like it's some kind of official holiday? Why can't we celebrate Christmas like the rest of the entire world? You would prefer to celebrate a magical fictitious elf (..)
    2016 Captain Fantastic