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

  • (..) Your powers of observation continue to serve you well. But wait. It is to Madame Justice that I dedicate this concerto... ...in honor of the holiday she seems to have taken from these parts... ...and in recognition of the imposter that stands in her stead. Tell me, do you know what day it is, Evey? (..)
    2005 V for Vendetta