holiday

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I - noun

1. leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure (Freq. 9)
- we get two weeks of vacation every summer
- we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico
• Syn:
vacation
• Derivationally related forms:
vacationist (for: vacation), vacation (for: vacation)
• Hypernyms:
leisure, leisure time
• Hyponyms:
half-term, vac, field day, outing, picnic,
honeymoon, paid vacation
2. a day on which work is suspended by law or custom (Freq. 4)
- no mail is delivered on federal holidays
- it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover
• Hypernyms:
day
• Hyponyms:
half-holiday, feast day, fete day, religious holiday, holy day,
Christmas Eve, Dec 24, legal holiday, national holiday, public holiday, Remembrance Day,
Remembrance Sunday, Poppy Day, Ramanavami, Mesasamkranti

II - verb

spend or take a vacation
• Syn:
vacation
• Derivationally related forms:
vacation (for: vacation), vacationist (for: vacation), vacationer (for: vacation), vacationing (for: vacation)
• Hypernyms:
spend, pass
• Hyponyms:
honeymoon
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP