Holiday

holiday
    n 1: leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure;
         "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a
         short holiday in Puerto Rico" [syn: {vacation}, {holiday}]
    2: a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail
       is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that
       New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover"
    v 1: spend or take a vacation [syn: {vacation}, {holiday}]
    

Holiday \Hol"i*day\, n. [Holy + day.]
   1. A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart
      in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some
      event. See {Holyday}.
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   2. A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and
      gayety; a festival day.
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            And young and old come forth to play
            On a sunshine holiday.                --Milton.
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   3. (Law) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a
      legal holiday.
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   Note: In the United States legal holidays, so called, are
         determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the
         several States. The holidays most generally observed
         are: the 22d day of February (Washington's birthday),
         the 30th day of May (Memorial day), the 4th day of July
         (Independence day), the 25th day of December (Christmas
         day). In most of the States the 1st day of January is a
         holiday. When any of these days falls on Sunday,
         usually the Monday following is observed as the
         holiday. In many of the States a day in the spring (as
         Good Friday, or the first Thursday in April), and a day
         in the fall (as the last Thursday in November) are now
         regularly appointed by Executive proclamation to be
         observed, the former as a day of fasting and prayer,
         the latter as a day of thanksgiving and are kept as
         holidays. In England, the days of the greater church
         feasts (designated in the calendar by a red letter, and
         commonly called red-letter days) are observed as
         general holidays. Bank holidays are those on which, by
         act of Parliament, banks may suspend business. Although
         Sunday is a holiday in the sense of a day when business
         is legally suspended, it is not usually included in the
         general term, the phrase "Sundays and holidays" being
         more common.
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   {The holidays}, any fixed or usual period for relaxation or
      festivity; especially, Christmas and New Year's day with
      the intervening time.
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Holiday \Hol`i*day\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
      --Shak.
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   2. Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
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            Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be
            seldom exercised.                     --Dryden.
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Vacation \Va*ca"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. vacatio a being free from
   a duty, service, etc., fr. vacare. See {Vacate}.]
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   1. The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the
      vacation of an office or a charter.
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   2. Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office;
      a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
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            It was not in his nature, however, at least till
            years had chastened it, to take any vacation from
            controversy.                          --Palfrey.
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      (a) (Law) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space
          of time between the end of one term and the beginning
          of the next; nonterm; recess. "With lawyers in the
          vacation." --Shak.
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      (b) A period of intermission of regular paid work or
          employment, or of studies and exercises at an
          educational institution; the time during which a
          person temporarily ceases regular duties of any kind
          and performs other activites, usually some form of
          liesure; holidays; recess (at a school); as, the
          spring vacation; to spend one's vacation travelling;
          to paint the house while on vacation. Vacation is
          typically used for rest, travel, or recreation, but
          may be used for any purpose. In Britain this sense of
          vacation is usually referred to as {holiday}.
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      (c) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the
          time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is
          vacant.
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Holiday, FL (CDP, FIPS 31075)
  Location: 28.18593 N, 82.74218 W
  Population (1990): 19360 (12160 housing units)
  Area: 13.4 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 34690, 34691
    

Holiday, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
   Population (2000):    21904
   Housing Units (2000): 12788
   Land area (2000):     5.381647 sq. miles (13.938401 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.345342 sq. miles (0.894432 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    5.726989 sq. miles (14.832833 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            31075
   Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
   Location:             28.183890 N, 82.742886 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     34690 34691
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Holiday, FL
    Holiday
    

188 Moby Thesaurus words for "holiday":
      AWOL, Admission Day, Arbor Day, Armed Forces Day, Armistice Day,
      Army Day, Bastille Day, Christmas, Colorado Day, Constitution Day,
      Decoration Day, Dewali, Discovery Day, Double Ten, Easter Monday,
      Election Day, Empire Day, Evacuation Day, Flag Day, Foundation Day,
      Fourth of July, French leave, Groundhog Day, Halifax Day,
      Halloween, High Holiday, High Holy Day, Holi, Ides of March,
      Kuhio Day, Labor Day, Lenin Memorial Day, Loyalty Day,
      Maryland Day, May Day, Mecklenburg Day, Memorial Day,
      Midsummer Day, National Aviation Day, Navy Day, Nevada Day,
      Pan American Day, Pascua Florida Day, Pioneer Day, Remembrance Day,
      Roosevelt Day, State Day, Sunday, Texas Independence Day,
      United Nations Day, V-E Day, Victory Day, West Virginia Day,
      Wyoming Day, abeyance, abscondence, absence, absence without leave,
      absentation, absenteeism, absenting, anniversaries, bank holiday,
      break, caesura, cease-fire, celebrating, celebration, ceremony,
      church feast, coffee break, comfortable, commemoration, cut,
      day of festivities, day off, default, departure, disappearance,
      downtime, dressing ship, drop, escape, event, excused absence,
      fair, fanfare, fanfaronade, feast, feast day, festal, festival,
      festival day, festivity, fete, fete day, fixed feast, fleeing,
      flourish of trumpets, furlough, gala, gala day, go on furlough,
      go on leave, half time, half-time intermission, hesitation,
      high day, holy day, hooky, interim, interlude, intermezzo,
      intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interruption, interval,
      jubilee, lapse, layoff, leave, leave of absence, leaving,
      legal holiday, letup, liberty, lull, make holiday,
      marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, nonappearance,
      nonattendance, observance, off-time, ovation, paid holiday,
      paid vacation, pause, plateau, point of repose, quiet, quiet spell,
      recess, red-letter day, rejoicing, relief, religious rites,
      remembrance, remission, respite, rest, restful, resting point,
      revel, rite, ritual observance, running away, sabbatical,
      sabbatical leave, sabbatical year, salute, salvo, shore leave,
      sick leave, solemn observance, solemnization, stand-down, stay,
      suspension, take a holiday, take leave, testimonial,
      testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, time off, time out, toast,
      tribute, triumph, truancy, truantism, truce, unexcused absence,
      vacation, vacational, weekend