[hol-i-dey] 
| 1. | a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person. |
| 2. | any day of exemption from work (distinguished from working day ). |
| 3. | a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.: New businesses may be granted a one-year tax holiday. |
| 4. | a religious feast day; holy day, esp. any of several usually commemorative holy days observed in Judaism. |
| 5. | Sometimes, holidays. Chiefly British. a period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation. |
| 6. | an unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface. |
| 7. | of or pertaining to a festival; festive; joyous: a holiday mood. |
| 8. | suitable for a holiday: holiday attire. |
| 9. | Chiefly British. to vacation: to holiday at the seaside. |
| hol·i·day (hŏl'ĭ-dā') n.
To pass a holiday or vacation. [Middle English holidai, holy day, from Old English hālig dæg : hālig, holy; see holy + dæg, day; see day.] hol'i·day'er n. |
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