holidays
noun C2- The season around Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Day. · Near-synonym: winter holiday· Where will you be spending the holidays?
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After the Christmas holidays the Avonlea students gave up going home on Fridays and settled down to hard work.
At first my neck was cramped with looking at it, but at the end of a year I became used to it; and then we have our hours of recreation, and our holidays.”
“Holidays?”
“Those are indeed holidays to me; I go into the garden, I plant, I prune, I trim, I kill the insects all day long.”
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