holiday
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos
Proto-Germanic *hailaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-Germanic *hailagaz
Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?
Proto-Germanic *dagaz
Proto-Germanic *hailagadagaz
Old English hāliġdæġ
Middle English halyday
English holiday
From Middle English halyday, holyday, halidei, haliȝdei, from Old English hāliġdæġ (“holy day, Sabbath”), equivalent to holy + day. Compare West Frisian hjeldei (“holiday”), Danish helligdag (“holiday”), Norwegian helligdag (“holiday”), Swedish helgdag (“holiday, feast”).
Compound parts: holy
day
Inflected forms:
form: holidays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: holyday
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: holidays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: holidaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: holidayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: holidayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: holyday
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A day on which a religious event or secular celebration is traditionally observed.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: holy day, feast day, festival (feast day sense)
Today is a Wiccan holiday!
Monday, January 18, was the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. In the morning I held a reception for the diplomatic representatives of other nations in the inner quadrangle at Georgetown, addressing them from the steps of Old North Building.
gloss: A day declared free from work by the state or government.
pos: noun
gloss: A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
examples: How much holiday are you allowed?
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
Climb aboard a butterfly and take off in the breeze. Let your worries flutter by and do the things you please. In the land where dollar bills are falling off the trees. On a dreamer’s holiday.[…]Make it a long vacation. Time, there is plenty of. You need no reservation. Just bring along the one you love.
gloss: A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
examples: I want to take a French course this summer holiday.
gloss: A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.
pos: noun
examples: a mortgage payment holiday
gloss: A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.
pos: noun
gloss: To take a period of time away from work or study.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
gloss: To spend a period of time in recreational travel.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
Related words: hallow
Halloween
whole
Derived words: alcoholiday
all holiday
antiholiday
bank holiday
Bank Holiday
blindman's holiday
blind man's holiday
busman's holiday
drug holiday
enjoy your holiday
go on holiday
half-holiday
Hallmark holiday
hallmark holiday
happy holidays
high days and holidays
High Holidays
holidate
Holiday
holiday camp
holidayer
holiday fic
holidayfic
holiday heart
holiday heart syndrome
holiday home
holidayism
holiday let
holiday-maker
holidaymaker
holidaymaking
holiday ownership
holiday package
holiday park
holiday pay
holiday season
holiday speeches
holiday time
holiday tree
holiday village
holigay
legal holiday
national holiday
nonholiday
package holiday
postholiday
preholiday
public holiday
Roman holiday
school holiday
stat holiday
statutory holiday
summer holiday
unholiday
winter holiday
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