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Holiday Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Holiday?
[n] leisure time away from work; devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico;"
[n] a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover" [v] spend or take a vacation Synonyms | Synonyms for Holiday: vacation | vacation Related Terms | Find terms related to Holiday: abeyance | abscondence | absence | absence without leave | absentation | absenteeism | absenting | Admission Day | anniversaries | Arbor Day | Armed Forces Day | Armistice Day | Army Day | AWOL | bank holiday | Bastille Day | break | caesura | cease-fire | celebrating | celebration | ceremony | Christmas | church feast | coffee break | Colorado Day | comfortable | commemoration | Constitution Day | cut | day of festivities | day off | Decoration Day | default | departure | Dewali | disappearance | Discovery Day | Double Ten | downtime | dressing ship | drop | Easter Monday | Election Day | Empire Day | escape | Evacuation Day | event | excused absence | fair | fanfare | fanfaronade | feast | feast day | festal | festival | festival day | festivity | fete | fete day | fixed feast | Flag Day | fleeing | flourish of trumpets | Foundation Day | Fourth of July | French leave | furlough | gala | gala day | go on furlough | go on leave | Groundhog Day | half time | half-time intermission | Halifax Day | Halloween | hesitation | high day | High Holiday | High Holy Day | Holi | holy day | hooky | Ides of March | interim | interlude | intermezzo | intermission | intermittence | interregnum | interruption | interval | jubilee | Kuhio Day | Labor Day | lapse | layoff | leave | leave of absence | leaving | legal holiday | Lenin Memorial Day | letup | liberty | Loyalty Day | lull | make holiday | marking the occasion | Maryland Day | May Day | Mecklenburg Day | Memorial Day | memorialization | memory | Midsummer Day | National Aviation Day | Navy Day | Nevada Day | nonappearance | nonattendance | observance | off-time | ovation | paid holiday | paid vacation | Pan American Day | Pascua Florida Day | pause | Pioneer Day | plateau | point of repose | quiet | quiet spell | recess | red-letter day | rejoicing | relief | religious rites | remembrance | Remembrance Day | remission | respite | rest | restful | resting point | revel | rite | ritual observance | Roosevelt Day | running away | sabbatical | sabbatical leave | sabbatical year | salute | salvo | shore leave | sick leave | solemn observance | solemnization | stand-down | State Day | stay | Sunday | suspension | take a holiday | take leave | testimonial | testimonial banquet | testimonial dinner | Texas Independence Day | time off | time out | toast | tribute | triumph | truancy | truantism | truce | unexcused absence | United Nations Day | vacation | vacational | V-E Day | Victory Day | weekend | West Virginia Day | Wyoming Day See Also | Christmas Eve | day | Dec 24 | field day | half-holiday | half-term | holy day | honeymoon | honeymoon | legal holiday | leisure | leisure time | national holiday | outing | paid vacation | pass | picnic | Poppy Day | religious holiday | Remembrance Day | Remembrance Sunday | spend | vac Holiday In Webster's Dictionary \Hol"i*day\, n. [Holy + day.]
1. A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart
in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some
event. See {Holyday}.
2. A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and
gayety; a festival day.
And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine
holiday. --Milton.
3. (Law) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a
legal holiday.
Note: In the United States legal holidays, so called, are
determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the
several States. The holidays most generally observed
are: the 22d day of February (Washington's birthday),
the 30th day of May (Memorial day), the 4th day of July
(Independence day), the 25th day of December (Christmas
day). In most of the States the 1st day of January is a
holiday. When any of these days falls on Sunday,
usually the Monday following is observed as the
holiday. In many of the States a day in the spring (as
Good Friday, or the first Thursday in April), and a day
in the fall (as the last Thursday in November) are now
regularly appointed by Executive proclamation to be
observed, the former as a day of fasting and prayer,
the latter as a day of thanksgiving and are kept as
holidays. In England, the days of the greater church
feasts (designated in the calendar by a red letter, and
commonly called red-letter days) are observed as
general holidays. Bank holidays are those on which, by
act of Parliament, banks may suspend business. Although
Sunday is a holiday in the sense of a day when business
is legally suspended, it is not usually included in the
general term, the phrase ``Sundays and holidays'' being
more common.
{The holidays}, any fixed or usual period for relaxation or
festivity; especially, Christmas and New Year's day with
the intervening time.
\Hol`i*day\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. --Shak. 2. Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion. Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised. --Dryden. |
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