Definitions for Holiday

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Holiday hol·i·day

Spelling: [hol-i-dey]

IPA: /ˈhɒl ɪˌdeɪ/

Holiday is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in Holiday (adhiloy).

Definitions for Holiday

noun

1. a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
2. any day of exemption from work (distinguished from working day).
3. a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.:
4. a religious feast day; holy day, especially any of several usually commemorative holy days observed in Judaism.
5. Sometimes, holidays. Chiefly British. a period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation.
6. an unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface.
7. Billie ("Lady Day") 1915–59, U.S. jazz singer.

adjective

1. of or relating to a festival; festive; joyous:
2. suitable for a holiday:

verb (used without object)

1. Chiefly British. to vacation:

Origin of Holiday

before 950; Middle English; Old English hāligdæg. See holy, day

Examples for Holiday

It makes a holiday in Colchis whenever such a thing happens.

They would have a holiday together, and then they would say good-bye.

Not long after the holiday presents are put away and the guests have gone home, another season begins.

While traveling this holiday season, a relative and I were pulled over by a police officer.

Judy, as depressing as she sounds in this song, just wants your holiday season to be happy.

It was popularized as a holiday dessert in 16th-century England and also is known as Christmas pudding or plum pudding.

But asked if he would say “Merry Christmas” to someone who he knew did not celebrate the holiday, he paused for several seconds.

Won't your Professor give you a holiday from—is it microbes you study?

The office had been closed, owing to a death, and Palmer was in possession of a holiday.

It was holiday for the horses of the Sun, and away they went.