Definition of "holiday" []

• A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event. (noun)
• A religious feast day; a holy day. (noun)
• Chiefly British A vacation. Often used in the phrase on holiday. (noun)
• Chiefly British To pass a holiday or vacation. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""Use of the term 'holiday tree' is a continuation of past practice, and does not represent a change of course on my part," he said in a statement."
• "The word holiday comes from the pairing of the words holy and day."
• "Great therefore was his astonishment and delight when on the evening before the term holiday Railsford put his head into the study and said --"