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
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“Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?”
After the Christmas holidays the Avonlea students gave up going home on Fridays and settled down to hard work.
They kept this day as a holiday, then and ever after, and spent the time in feasting and dancing.
It was not Holmes’s nature to take an aimless holiday, and something about his pale, worn face told me that his nerves were at their highest tension.
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