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单词 microvacation
释义

microvacation

See also: micro-vacation

English

Alternative forms

  • micro-vacation

Etymology

micro- + vacation

Noun

microvacation (plural microvacations)

  1. A very brief vacation; a momentary respite from the cares of everyday life.
    • 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Penguin Books (1991), →ISBN, page 92:
      With only a few tree silhouettes, and both the freeways and El Camino Real miraculously silent, for just these moments Ralph Sr., appreciative of peace as anybody, could take another of what he'd come to think of as microvacations on an island of time fragile and precious as any Tahiti or one of them.

Quotations

  • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:microvacation.

Synonyms

  • nanobreak
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