holiday meaning
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[ˈhɒlɪdeɪ] [ˈhɑləˌdeɪ] 
US WHoliday
- A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work, are suspended or reduced.
- The concept of holidays has most often originated in connection with religious observances. The intention of a holiday was typically to allow individuals to tend to religious duties associated with important dates on the calendar.
- In many societies there are important distinctions between holidays designated by governments and holidays designated by religious institutions.
EN Holiday 
- NounPLholidaysPREhol-
- A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.
- Today is a Wiccan holiday!
- A day declared free from work by the state or government.
- A period of one or more days taken off work by an employee for leisure.
- A period during which pupils and students do not attend their school or university.
- I want to take a French course this summer holiday.
- A period taken off work or study for travel or leisure.
- 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.
- A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.
- A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.
- VerbSGholidaysPRholidayingPT, PPholidayed
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- If you'd like to get a jump on the holiday season, many craft stores already have holiday patterns out.
- The holidays didn't live up to the advertiser's claims.
- Our lucky free draw winner will be treated to dinner, bed and breakfast, but the holiday must be taken before December, 1991 (subject to availability and excluding bank holidays).
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The authorities are trying to crack down on drunk driving during the holidays.
- I sucked in my belly, hoping to hide the extra weight I had put on over the holidays.
- The car factory has closed up for the August holidays.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of holiday in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Nouns
- en holidays
- en holidayed
- en holidayer
- en holidaying
- en holidayers
Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "holiday" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.