2. Noun. (qualifier plural only) The season around Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's Day. ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of holiday) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Holidays
1. holiday [v] - See also: holiday
Medical Definition of Holidays
1. Days commemorating events. Holidays also include vacation periods. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holidays
Literary usage of Holidays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"For it seemed that Tozer had a dreadful uncle, who not only volunteered examinations
of him, in the holidays, on abstruse points, but twisted innocent ..."
2. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"But the majority spent the holidays in sports, ball playing, wrestling, boxing,
... A slave who would work during the holidays, was thought, by his master, ..."
3. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Thurs., Sat. and Bank holidays, a-6. Sundays in June, July and August. 2-6. ...
Daily except Mondays, and Tuesdays after Bank holidays, but including Bank ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It will suffice to deal here with public holidays, the observance of which ...
But while the influence of religion in determining such holidays has waned, ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"Spanish life is pretty well filled up with holidays. The country is under the
protection of a better-filled calendar of saints than any in Christendom, ..."
6. The Massachusetts Teacher (1851)
"The following holidays and vacations shall be granted to the schools, viz. ...
In addition to these holidays the Latin and English High Schools shall be ..."
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