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"we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico"nounleisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
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verbspend or take a vacation
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"no mail is delivered on federal holidays" "it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover"nouna day on which work is suspended by law or customtype of:
Definition that contains holiday
- keep behave as expected during of holidays or rites
- christmas a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
- celebrate behave as expected during of holidays or rites
- season a recurrent time marked by major holidays
- honeymoon a holiday taken by a newly married couple
- honeymoon spend a holiday after one's marriage
- observe behave as expected during of holidays or rites
- campsite a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
- xmas a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
- nazarene a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome