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

  • (..) Miss Mackenzie will need to breath into a bag now. Six grand a term, you'd expect them to keep the kids safe for you. You said the other kids had all left on their holidays. They were the only two sleeping on this floor. There's absolutely no sign of a break-in. The intruder must have been (..)
    2012 TvShow: Sherlock Title: The Reichenbach Fall Season: 2 Episode 3