EtymologyEdit
From Middle English halyday, holyday, halidei, haliȝdei, from Old English hāliġdæġ (“holy day, Sabbath”), equivalent to holy + day. Cognate with West Frisian hjeldei (“holiday”), Danish helligdag (“holiday”), Norwegian helligdag (“holiday”), Swedish helgdag (“holiday, feast”).
PronunciationEdit
holiday (plural holidays)
- 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.
- (chiefly Britain) A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural (US English: vacation).
1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity: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.
- (chiefly Britain) (US English: vacation) A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).
I want to take a French course this summer holiday.
- A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.[1]
- (day on which a festival, etc, is traditionally observed): feast day (celebratory religious event)
- (day declared free from work by the government): bank holiday (UK), national holiday
- (period of one or more days taken off work by an employee for leisure): leave, time off
- (period taken off work or study for travel): vacation (US)
- (gap in coverage): lacuna
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
day on which a festival etc. is traditionally observed
- Albanian: festë (sq) f
- Arabic: عِيد (ar) m (ʿīd)
- Armenian: տոն (hy) (ton)
- Aromanian: sãrbãtoari f
- Azerbaijani: bayram (az)
- Bashkir: байрам (bayram), ғәйет (ğäyet)
- Belarusian: свя́та n (svjáta)
- Bengali: ছুটির দিন (chuţir din)
- Bulgarian: пра́зник (bg) m (práznik)
- Burmese: အလုပ်ပိတ်ရက် (my) (a.luppitrak)
- Catalan: festa (ca) f
- Chichewa: holide
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 節日 (zh), 节日 (zh) (jiérì), 節慶 (zh), 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: חַג (he) m (khag)
- Hindi: छुट्टी 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 (さいじつ, saijitsu), 祭り (ja) (まつり, matsuri)
- Kazakh: мейрам (meyram), айт (ayt)
- Khmer: ថ្ងៃឈប់សម្រាក (tŋay cʰup sɑmraak)
- Korean: 축제일 (ko) (chukjeil), 축일 (ko) (chugil)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: جەژن (cejn)
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- Kyrgyz: майрам (ky) (mayram), айт (ky) (ayt)
- Lao: ມື້ພັກ (lo) (mư̄ phak)
- Latin: feria, festum
- Macedonian: празник m (praznik)
- Maltese: jum il-festa
- Manx: feaill f, feailley f
- Maori: hararei
- Mongolian: баяр (mn) (bajar)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: helligdag m
- Nynorsk: heilagdag m
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: праздьникъ m (prazdĭnikŭ)
- Persian: عید (fa) ('eyd)
- 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: празник m, свечаник m, светковина f
- Roman: praznik (sh) m, svečanik m, svetkovina (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 (wan-yùt)
- Turkish: bayram (tr)
- Turkmen: baýramçylyk (tk), baýram (tk)
- Ukrainian: свя́то n (svjáto)
- Urdu: چهٿي f (chuṭṭī), عید f ('īd)
- Uyghur: بايرام (bayram)
- Uzbek: bayram (uz)
- Vietnamese: ngày lễ (vi)
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day declared free from work by the government
period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel
- Arabic: إِجَازَة f (ʾijāza), عُطْلَة f (ʿuṭla)
- Armenian: արձակուրդ (hy) (arjakurd)
- Azerbaijani: tətil (az)
- Bashkir: ял (yal)
- Belarusian: во́дпуск m (vódpusk)
- Bulgarian: отпуск (bg) m (otpusk)
- 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
- Finnish: loma (fi), lomapäivä (fi), vapaapäivä (fi)
- French: congé (fr) m, vacances (fr) pl
- Galician: vacacións f pl
- German: Urlaub (de) m, Ferien (de) pl
- Greek: διακοπές (el) f or pl (diakopés)
- Hebrew: חופשה \ חֻפְשָׁה (ḥufshá)
- Hindi: छुट्टी (hi) f (chuṭṭī)
- 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) (demalıs)
- Korean: 휴가 (ko) (hyuga)
- Kyrgyz: дем алыш (ky) (dem alış), отпуск (ky) (otpusk)
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period during which pupils do not attend school
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
Translations to be checked
holiday (third-person singular simple present holidays, present participle holidaying, simple past and past participle holidayed) (chiefly Britain)
- To take a period of time away from work or study.
- (Britain) To spend a period of time for travel.
TranslationsEdit
to take a period of time away from work or study
to spend a period of time for travel
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