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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

  • (..) Please proceed. Thank you. The administration was hopefuI, but cautious Friday... ...in its reaction... ...to a possible opening of the Berlin Wall... ...during the upcoming Christmas holiday. Good night, gentlemen. See you in the morning. Yeah. baby. it's Mac. lt's on tonight. (..)
    1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest