Holiday

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Holiday \Hol"i*day\, n. [Holy + day.]
     1. A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart
        in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some
        event. See {Holyday}.
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     2. A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and
        gayety; a festival day.
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              And young and old come forth to play
              On a sunshine holiday.                --Milton.
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     3. (Law) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a
        legal holiday.
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     Note: In the United States legal holidays, so called, are
           determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the
           several States. The holidays most generally observed
           are: the 22d day of February (Washington's birthday),
           the 30th day of May (Memorial day), the 4th day of July
           (Independence day), the 25th day of December (Christmas
           day). In most of the States the 1st day of January is a
           holiday. When any of these days falls on Sunday,
           usually the Monday following is observed as the
           holiday. In many of the States a day in the spring (as
           Good Friday, or the first Thursday in April), and a day
           in the fall (as the last Thursday in November) are now
           regularly appointed by Executive proclamation to be
           observed, the former as a day of fasting and prayer,
           the latter as a day of thanksgiving and are kept as
           holidays. In England, the days of the greater church
           feasts (designated in the calendar by a red letter, and
           commonly called red-letter days) are observed as
           general holidays. Bank holidays are those on which, by
           act of Parliament, banks may suspend business. Although
           Sunday is a holiday in the sense of a day when business
           is legally suspended, it is not usually included in the
           general term, the phrase "Sundays and holidays" being
           more common.
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     {The holidays}, any fixed or usual period for relaxation or
        festivity; especially, Christmas and New Year's day with
        the intervening time.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Holiday \Hol`i*day\, a.
     1. Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
        --Shak.
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     2. Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
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              Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be
              seldom exercised.                     --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vacation \Va*ca"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. vacatio a being free from
     a duty, service, etc., fr. vacare. See {Vacate}.]
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     1. The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the
        vacation of an office or a charter.
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     2. Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office;
        a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
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              It was not in his nature, however, at least till
              years had chastened it, to take any vacation from
              controversy.                          --Palfrey.
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        (a) (Law) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space
            of time between the end of one term and the beginning
            of the next; nonterm; recess. "With lawyers in the
            vacation." --Shak.
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        (b) A period of intermission of regular paid work or
            employment, or of studies and exercises at an
            educational institution; the time during which a
            person temporarily ceases regular duties of any kind
            and performs other activites, usually some form of
            liesure; holidays; recess (at a school); as, the
            spring vacation; to spend one's vacation travelling;
            to paint the house while on vacation. Vacation is
            typically used for rest, travel, or recreation, but
            may be used for any purpose. In Britain this sense of
            vacation is usually referred to as {holiday}.
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        (c) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the
            time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is
            vacant.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  holiday
       n 1: leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we
            get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a
            short holiday in Puerto Rico" [syn: {vacation}]
       2: a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail
          is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that
          New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover"
       v : spend or take a vacation [syn: {vacation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  188 Moby Thesaurus words for "holiday":
     AWOL, Admission Day, Arbor Day, Armed Forces Day, Armistice Day,
     Army Day, Bastille Day, Christmas, Colorado Day, Constitution Day,
     Decoration Day, Dewali, Discovery Day, Double Ten, Easter Monday,
     Election Day, Empire Day, Evacuation Day, Flag Day, Foundation Day,
     Fourth of July, French leave, Groundhog Day, Halifax Day,
     Halloween, High Holiday, High Holy Day, Holi, Ides of March,
     Kuhio Day, Labor Day, Lenin Memorial Day, Loyalty Day,
     Maryland Day, May Day, Mecklenburg Day, Memorial Day,
     Midsummer Day, National Aviation Day, Navy Day, Nevada Day,
     Pan American Day, Pascua Florida Day, Pioneer Day, Remembrance Day,
     Roosevelt Day, State Day, Sunday, Texas Independence Day,
     United Nations Day, V-E Day, Victory Day, West Virginia Day,
     Wyoming Day, abeyance, abscondence, absence, absence without leave,
     absentation, absenteeism, absenting, anniversaries, bank holiday,
     break, caesura, cease-fire, celebrating, celebration, ceremony,
     church feast, coffee break, comfortable, commemoration, cut,
     day of festivities, day off, default, departure, disappearance,
     downtime, dressing ship, drop, escape, event, excused absence,
     fair, fanfare, fanfaronade, feast, feast day, festal, festival,
     festival day, festivity, fete, fete day, fixed feast, fleeing,
     flourish of trumpets, furlough, gala, gala day, go on furlough,
     go on leave, half time, half-time intermission, hesitation,
     high day, holy day, hooky, interim, interlude, intermezzo,
     intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interruption, interval,
     jubilee, lapse, layoff, leave, leave of absence, leaving,
     legal holiday, letup, liberty, lull, make holiday,
     marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, nonappearance,
     nonattendance, observance, off-time, ovation, paid holiday,
     paid vacation, pause, plateau, point of repose, quiet, quiet spell,
     recess, red-letter day, rejoicing, relief, religious rites,
     remembrance, remission, respite, rest, restful, resting point,
     revel, rite, ritual observance, running away, sabbatical,
     sabbatical leave, sabbatical year, salute, salvo, shore leave,
     sick leave, solemn observance, solemnization, stand-down, stay,
     suspension, take a holiday, take leave, testimonial,
     testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, time off, time out, toast,
     tribute, triumph, truancy, truantism, truce, unexcused absence,
     vacation, vacational, weekend
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Holiday, FL (CDP, FIPS 31075)
    Location: 28.18593 N, 82.74218 W
    Population (1990): 19360 (12160 housing units)
    Area: 13.4 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 34690, 34691

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Holiday, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
     Population (2000):    21904
     Housing Units (2000): 12788
     Land area (2000):     5.381647 sq. miles (13.938401 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.345342 sq. miles (0.894432 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    5.726989 sq. miles (14.832833 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            31075
     Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
     Location:             28.183890 N, 82.742886 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     34690 34691
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Holiday, FL
      Holiday