Holiday
['hɒlɪdeɪ;-dɪ] or ['hɑləde]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
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Definition
(n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
(n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
(n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
(a.) Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Festival, anniversary, celebration.[2]. Day of amusement.
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Definition
n. a consecrated day: a religious festival: a day for the commemoration of some event: a day of idleness and amusement.—adj. befitting a holiday: cheerful.—Holiday speeches fine but empty phrases.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a holiday, foretells interesting strangers will soon partake of your hospitality. For a young woman to dream that she is displeased with a holiday, denotes she will be fearful of her own attractions in winning a friend back from a rival.
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Examples
- I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was a public holiday; the streets were decorated by gay banners and made glad with music. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She soon resolved, equally as a duty and a pleasure, to employ half an hour of this holiday of spirits in calling on Miss Fairfax. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Ah, that's just the wery thing, Sir,' rejoined Sam, 'they don't mind it; it's a reg'lar holiday to them--all porter and skittles. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The next day but one was Saturday, and a holiday. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These are my holidays. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had his top-boots in his room, in which he used to hunt in the holidays. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- When his holidays are expired, I will myself take him back to school. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He had the feeling of unexplained excitement with which, on half-holidays at school, he used to start off into the unknown. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- However, I loved her faithfully; and one time I went home with her for the holidays. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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