Vacation
[və'keɪʃ(ə)n;veɪ-] or [və'keʃ(ə)n;ve-]
Definition
(noun.) the act of making something legally void.
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) spend or take a vacation.
Typist: Ralph--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
(n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
(n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
(n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.
(n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.
Typist: Robbie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Intermission (of studies, &c.).
Typist: Ora
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Holiday, recreation
ANT:Term, business
Checker: Myrna
Examples
- Your friend is spending her vacation in travelling, I hear? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What shall you do all your vacation? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Where had I spent the vacation? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The vacation is nearly over, the stints are all done, and we are ever so glad that we didn't dawdle. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- All this occurred during the first month of the long vacation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Do you study in vacation time? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The allurement of a vacation camp in the heart of the woods is so great as to make many campers ignore the vital importance of securing a safe water supply. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In his vacations from London he went to the farthest regions of the British Isles, spending considerable time in the north of Ireland and the Hebrides. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I did them in the last two vacations I spent at Lowood, when I had no other occupation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- My vacations had all been spent at school: Mrs. Reed had never sent for me to Gateshead; neither she nor any of her family had ever been to visit me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checked by Bernie