Definition of Religious holiday

1. Noun. A day specified for religious observance.

Exact synonyms: Holy Day
Specialized synonyms: Fast Day, Christian Holy Day, Jewish Holy Day, Dormition, Feast Of Dormition
Group relationships: Christian Year, Church Year
Generic synonyms: Holiday

Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Holiday

religiophobes
religiophobia
religiophobic
religiopolitical
religiose
religiosities
religiosity
religious
religious-pluralism
religious belief
religious ceremony
religious cult
religious doctrine
religious education
religious festival
religious holiday (current term)
religious leader
religious movement
religious music
religious mystic
religious mysticism
religious naturalism
religious naturalist
religious naturalists
religious offering
religious order
religious orders
religious orientation
religious outcast
religious person

Literary usage of Religious holiday

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Finding Common Ground: A First Amendment Guide to Religion & Public Educationedited by Charles Haynes edited by Charles Haynes (1997)
"Religious musical programs (1) Musical programs prepared for or presented during school hours should not be religious or religious-holiday oriented. ..."

2. Commercial Precedents Selected from the Column of Replies and Decisions of by Charles Putzel, H. A. Bähr (1881)
"Can the observance of a religious holiday by any one make it a legal holiday, so as to protect a bank against a charge of want of diligence, ..."

3. Commercial Precedents: Selected from the Column of Replies and Decisions of by Charles Putzel, H. A. Bähr (1881)
"The question of holding over sight drafts when the drawee is observing a religious holiday has been submitted to several of our ..."

4. Freer Trade, Protected Environment: Balancing Trade Liberalization and by Carlisle Ford Runge, François Ortalo-Magné, Philip Vande Kamp (1994)
"... weekly religious holiday—for example, Saturday or Sunday—prohibits the importation of goods produced by work on the specified religious holiday.29 While ..."

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