holiday

holiday

See also: Holiday

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒlɪdeɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑləˌdeɪ/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒlɪdɪ/

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Noun

holiday (plural holidays)

1. A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.

   Synonyms: feast day, holy day

   Today is a Wiccan holiday!

   • 2005, Clinton, Bill, My Life‎, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, OCLC 60594427, page 5:

     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.

2. A day declared free from work by the state or government.

   Synonyms: (UK) bank holiday, national holiday

3. (chiefly UK, Australia) A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.

   Synonyms: leave, time off, (US) vacation; see also Thesaurus:vacation

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 46:

     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.

   • 1949 August 11, “A Dreamer’s Holiday”, performed by Perry Como, The Fontaine Sisters, The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra:

     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.

4. (chiefly UK, Australia) A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).

   Synonym: (US) vacation

   I want to take a French course this summer holiday.

5. (finance) A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.

   a mortgage payment holiday

6. A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.[1]

   Synonym: lacuna

Derived terms

• alcoholiday
• all holiday
• antiholiday
• bank holiday
• Bank Holiday
• blindman's holiday
• blind man's holiday
• busman's holiday
• enjoy your holiday
• go on holiday
• half-holiday
• hallmark holiday
• Hallmark holiday
• happy holidays
• high days and holidays
• High Holidays
• Holiday
• holiday camp
• holidayer
• holidayfic
• holiday fic
• holiday heart syndrome
• holiday home
• holidayism
• holidaymaker
• holiday-maker
• holidaymaking
• holiday ownership
• holiday package
• holiday park
• holiday pay
• holiday season
• holiday speeches
• holiday tree
• legal holiday
• national holiday
• package holiday
• public holiday
• Roman holiday
• statutory holiday
• summer holiday
• unholiday
• winter holiday

 

Translations

day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed

Albanian: festë (sq) f Arabic: عِيد‎ (ar) m (ʿīd) Armenian: տոն (hy) (ton) Aromanian: sãrbãtoari f Avar: байрам (bajram) Azerbaijani: bayram (az) Bashkir: байрам (bayram), ғәйет (ğäyet) Belarusian: свя́та n (svjáta), пра́знік m (práznik) Bengali: ছুটির দিন (chuṭir din) Bulgarian: пра́зник (bg) m (práznik) Burmese: အလုပ်ပိတ်ရက် (my) (a.luppitrak) Catalan: festa (ca) f Chichewa: holide Chinese: Mandarin: 節日／节日 (zh) (jiérì), 節慶／节庆 (zh) (jiéqìng) Chukchi: праздник (prazdnik), эӈэӈыткун (ėṇėṇytkun), крычмын (kryčmyn) Chuvash: уяв (ujav) Crimean Tatar: bayram Czech: svátek (cs) m Danish: helligdag (da) c Dutch: feestdag (nl) m Esperanto: festotago Estonian: püha Finnish: juhlapäivä (fi), pyhäpäivä (fi) French: fête (fr) f Galician: festa (gl) f, día santo m, día festivo m Georgian: დღესასწაული (dɣesasc̣auli) German: Feiertag (de) m Greek: γιορτή (el) f (giortí) Ancient: ἑορτή f (heortḗ) Hebrew: חג \\ חַג‎ (he) m (khag), יום טוב‎ (he) m (yóm ṭóv) Hindi: छुट्टी (hi) f (chuṭṭī), ईद (hi) f (īd) (Muslim) Hungarian: ünnepnap (hu) Icelandic: helgidagur (is) m Indonesian: liburan (id) Irish: lá saoire m Italian: giorno festivo m Japanese: 祭日 (ja) (さいじつ, saijitsu), 祭り (ja) (まつり, matsuri) Kazakh: мейрам (meiram), айт (ait) Khmer: ថ្ងៃឈប់សម្រាក (thngay chup sɑmraak), បុណ្យ (km) (bon), ថ្ងៃឈប់បុណ្យ (thngay chup bon) Korean: 축제일(祝祭日) (ko) (chukjeil), 축일(祝日) (ko) (chugil) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: جەژن‎ (ku) (cejn), عه‌ید‎ ('eyd) Northern Kurdish: eyd (ku) Kyrgyz: майрам (ky) (mayram), айт (ky) (ayt) Lao: ມື້ພັກ (lo) (mư̄ phak) Latin: diēs fēstus m, fēria f, fēstum n Macedonian: празник m (praznik) Malay: hari perayaan Maltese: jum il-festa Manx: feaill f, feailley f Maori: hararei Mongolian: Cyrillic: баяр (mn) (bajar) Mòcheno: fest n Norwegian: Bokmål: helligdag m, helgedag m, høytidsdag m, høgtidsdag m Nynorsk: heilagdag m, helgedag m, høgtidsdag m Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: праздьникъ m (prazdĭnikŭ) Pashto: عيد‎ (ps) m (id) Persian: عید‎ (fa) ('eyd) Plautdietsch: Heljedach m Polish: święto (pl) n Portuguese: feriado (pt) m Romanian: sărbătoare (ro) f Russian: пра́здник (ru) m (prázdnik) Scottish Gaelic: latha-fèille m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пра̑знӣк m, свѐтковина f Roman: prȃznīk (sh) m, svètkovina (sh) f Shor: пайрам (payram) Slovak: sviatok m Slovene: praznik (sl) m Spanish: festividad (es) f, fiesta (es) f Swahili: likizo (sw) Swedish: högtid (sv) c Tajik: ид (tg) (id) Tatar: бәйрәм (tt) (bäyräm) Telugu: సెలవు (te) (selavu) Thai: วันหยุด (th) (wan-yùt) Turkish: bayram (tr) Turkmen: baýramçylyk (tk), baýram (tk) Ukrainian: свя́то n (svjáto), пра́зник (uk) m (práznyk) Urdu: عید‎ f ('īd), چهٿی‎ f (chuṭṭī) Uyghur: بايرام‎ (bayram) Uzbek: bayram (uz) Vietnamese: ngày lễ (vi)

day declared free from work by the government

Arabic: عُطْل‎ m (ʿuṭl), عُطْلَة‎ f (ʿuṭla) Gulf Arabic: عطلة‎ (ʿɛṭlə), يوم راحة‎ (yom raḥə) Armenian: տոն (hy) (ton) Bashkir: байрам көнө (bayram könö), ял көнө (yal könö) Basque: jaiegun Belarusian: свя́та n (svjáta), выхадны́ дзень m (vyxadný dzjenʹ), выхадны́ m (vyxadný) Bulgarian: пра́зник (bg) m (práznik) Catalan: dia de festa m, dia feriat m Chichewa: holide Chinese: Mandarin: 假日 (zh) (jiàrì), 休息日 (zh) (xiūxirì) Czech: svátek (cs) m Danish: helligdag (da) c, fridag (da) c Dutch: feestdag (nl) m Finnish: yleinen vapaapäivä French: jour férié (fr) m, jour de congé (fr) m Galician: día festivo m German: gesetzlicher Feiertag m, Ruhetag (de) m Greek: αργία (el) f (argía) Hindi: छुट्टी (hi) f (chuṭṭī), तातील (hi) f (tātīl), छुट्टी का दिन m (chuṭṭī kā din) Hungarian: szünnap (hu), szabadnap (hu) Indonesian: liburan (id) Irish: lá saoire m Italian: giorno festivo m Japanese: 休日 (ja) (きゅうじつ, kyūjitsu), 休暇 (ja) (きゅうか, kyūka) Korean: 휴일(休日) (ko) (hyuil) Lao: ມື້ພັກງານ (mư̄ phak ngān) Latin: fēriae f pl, fēstum n Macedonian: празник m (praznik), неработен ден m (neraboten den) Malay: cuti (ms) Malayalam: അവധി (ml) (avadhi) Maltese: btala, franka Maori: hararei Norwegian: Bokmål: helligdag m Nynorsk: heilagdag m Persian: تعطیل‎ (fa) (ta'til), هالیدی‎ (hâlidey) (informal) Polish: święto (pl) n Portuguese: feriado (pt) m Russian: пра́здник (ru) m (prázdnik), выходно́й день m (vyxodnój denʹ), выходно́й (ru) m (vyxodnój) Scottish Gaelic: latha-fèille m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пра̑знӣк m Roman: prȃznīk (sh) m Slovak: sviatok m Slovene: praznik (sl) m Spanish: día festivo m (Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua), feriado (es) m (Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Peru, Uruguay), día feriado m (Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela); día de fiesta m (Cuba) Swahili: likizo (sw) Swedish: helgdag (sv) c Thai: วันหยุด (th) (wan-yùt) Tibetan: གུང་གསེང (gung gseng) Turkish: tatil (tr) Ukrainian: свя́то n (svjáto), вихідни́й день m (vyxidnýj denʹ), вихідни́й m (vyxidnýj) Urdu: تعطیل‎ (ta'tīl), چھٹی‎ f (chuṭṭī) Vietnamese: nghỉ lễ

period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel

Albanian: festë (sq) f, pushim (sq) m Arabic: إِجَازَة‎ f (ʾijāza), عُطْلَة‎ f (ʿuṭla) Armenian: արձակուրդ (hy) (arjakurd) Azerbaijani: tətil (az) Bashkir: ял (yal) Belarusian: во́дпуск m (vódpusk) Bulgarian: о́тпуска (bg) f (ótpuska), о́тпуск (bg) m (ótpusk) Catalan: vacances (ca) f pl Chichewa: holide Chinese: Mandarin: 假日 (zh) (jiàrì), 休假日 (xiūjiàrì), 假期 (zh) (jiàqī) Czech: dovolená (cs) f Danish: ferie (da) c Dutch: vakantie (nl) f Esperanto: libertempo Estonian: puhkust Finnish: loma (fi), lomapäivä (fi), vapaapäivä (fi) French: congé (fr) m, vacances (fr) f pl Galician: vacacións f pl German: Urlaub (de) m, Ferien (de) pl Greek: διακοπές (el) f or pl (diakopés) Hebrew: חופשה \\ חֻפְשָׁה‎ (he) f (khufshá) Hindi: छुट्टी (hi) f (chuṭṭī), तातील (hi) f (tātīl), छुट्टी का दिन m (chuṭṭī kā din) Hungarian: szabadság (hu) Irish: saoire f Italian: vacanza (it) f, ferie (it) f pl Japanese: 休暇 (ja) (きゅうか, kyūka), 休日 (ja) (きゅうじつ, kyūjitsu) Kazakh: демалыс (kk) (demalys) Khmer: ថ្ងៃលំហែ (thngay lumhae), ល្ហែ (km) (lhae), រហែ (km) (rɔhae) Korean: 휴가(休暇) (ko) (hyuga) Kyrgyz: дем алыш (ky) (dem alış), отпуск (ky) (otpusk) Latin: cessātiō f, fēriae f pl Latvian: atvaļinājums m Lithuanian: atostogos (lt) f pl Macedonian: одмор m (odmor) Malay: cuti (ms) Maltese: vaganza Maori: hararei Mongolian: Cyrillic: амралт (mn) (amralt) Norwegian: Bokmål: ferie (no) m Nynorsk: ferie m Pashto: تعطيل‎ (ps) m (ta'tíl) Persian: تعطیل‎ (fa) (ta'til) Polish: urlop (pl) m Portuguese: férias (pt) f pl Romanian: vacanţă (ro) f Russian: о́тпуск (ru) m (ótpusk), отгу́л (ru) m (otgúl) (unpaid) Scottish Gaelic: saor-làithean m pl, làithean-saora m pl, saor-latha m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀дмор m Roman: òdmor (sh) m Slovak: dovolená (sk) f Slovene: dopust m Spanish: vacación f, vacaciones (es) f pl Swahili: likizo (sw) Swedish: semester (sv) c Tajik: таътил (tg) (taʾtil), отпуска (otpuska) Turkish: tatil (tr) Turkmen: dynç alyş Ukrainian: відпу́стка f (vidpústka) Urdu: تعطیل‎ (ta'tīl), چھٹی‎ f (chuṭṭī) Uyghur: تەتىل‎ (tetil) Uzbek: otpuska (uz), taʼtil (uz) Vietnamese: nghỉ phép (vi)

period during which pupils do not attend school

Azerbaijani: tətil (az) Belarusian: кані́кулы f pl (kaníkuly), вака́цыя f (vakácyja) Bulgarian: вака́нция (bg) f (vakáncija) Catalan: vacances (ca) f pl Chichewa: holide Chinese: Mandarin: 假期 (zh) (jiàqī, jiàqí) Czech: prázdniny (cs) f pl Danish: ferie (da) c Dutch: vakantie (nl) Esperanto: (lernejaj) ferioj (eo) Estonian: vaheaeg, koolivaheaeg Finnish: loma (fi) French: vacances (fr) f pl Galician: vacacións f pl German: Ferien (de) pl, Urlaub (de) m Greek: διακοπές (el) f or pl (diakopés) Hungarian: szünet (hu), vakáció (hu) (summer only) Irish: laethanta saoire m pl Italian: vacanza (it) f Kazakh: демалыс (kk) (demalys) Korean: 방학(放學) (ko) (banghak) Latin: fēriae f pl, cessātiō f Latvian: brīvdienas f pl Macedonian: распуст m (raspust) Malagasy: fialantsasatra, fialantsasatra Malayalam: അവധിക്കാലം (avadhikkālaṃ) Norwegian: Bokmål: ferie (no) m Nynorsk: ferie m Persian: تعطیل‎ (fa) (ta'til), تعطیلات‎‎ pl (ta'tilât) Polish: wakacje (pl) pl, ferie (pl) f pl (winter holidays) Portuguese: férias (pt) Russian: кани́кулы (ru) f pl (kaníkuly) Scottish Gaelic: saor-làithean m pl, làithean-saora m pl Swahili: likizo (sw) Swedish: lov (sv) n Tajik: таътил (tg) (taʾtil) Turkish: tatil (tr) Turkmen: kanikul Ukrainian: кані́кули f pl (kaníkuly) Uzbek: kanikul (uz), tatil (uz)

finance: period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made

Hungarian: haladék (hu)

unintentional gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery — See also translations at lacuna

Danish: helligdag (da) c Finnish: aukko (fi) Hungarian: kihagyott/kimaradt rész/felület, hézag (hu), kihagyás (hu), hiány (hu) Italian: vacanza (it) f Russian: опло́шность (ru) f (oplóšnostʹ), про́пуск (ru) m (própusk), плешь (ru) f (plešʹ) Swahili: likizo (sw)

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Macedonian: одмор m (odmor), отсуство n (otsustvo) Maltese: vaganza, btala Persian: تعطیل‎ (fa) (ta'til) Sanskrit: (please verify) विरामदिन (virāmadina) Vietnamese: nghỉ hè (vi)

Verb

holiday (third-person singular simple present holidays, present participle holidaying, simple past and past participle holidayed) (chiefly Britain)

1. (intransitive) To take a period of time away from work or study.
2. (Britain, intransitive) To spend a period of time in recreational travel.

Translations

to take a period of time away from work or study

Finnish: lomailla (fi) Hungarian: szabadságon van, szabadnapos (hu) (adjective, used in predicates with 'van') Macedonian: отсуствува (otsustvuva), зема одмор (zema odmor) Maori: hararei Portuguese: tirar férias Russian: брать о́тпуск (bratʹ ótpusk), проводи́ть о́тпуск (provodítʹ ótpusk), проводи́ть кани́кулы (provodítʹ kaníkuly), отдыха́ть (ru) (otdyxátʹ) Vietnamese: nghỉ mát (vi)

to spend a period of time in recreational travel

Finnish: matkustella (fi) German: reisen (de), eine Ferienreise machen, urlauben (de) (colloquial) Hungarian: kirándul (hu) Maori: hararei Russian: путеше́ствовать (ru) (putešéstvovatʹ)

References

1. “holiday”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• hyaloid, hyoidal

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Middle English

Noun

holiday

1. Alternative form of halyday