holiday
/ˈhɑləˌdeɪ/ noun A1- A day on which a religious event or secular celebration is traditionally observed. · Today is a Wiccan holiday!
- A day declared free from work by the state or government.
- A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made. · a mortgage payment holiday
- A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.
Plural holidays
From the library
They kept this day as a holiday, then and ever after, and spent the time in feasting and dancing.
As they could not be put to the proof until this evening, I invited you and your colleague to take a holiday for the day.
He was very willing to have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for the address that was given us in the advertisement.
“Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?”
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