transcription, транскрипция: [ hɒlɪdei ]
( holidays, holidaying, holidayed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A holiday is a period of time during which you relax and enjoy yourself away from home. People sometimes refer to their holiday as their holidays . ( BRIT; in AM, use vacation )
We rang Duncan to ask where he was going on holiday...
Ischia is a popular seaside holiday resort...
We’re going to Scotland for our holidays.
N-COUNT : also on/from N
2.
A holiday is a day when people do not go to work or school because of a religious or national festival.
New Year’s Day is a public holiday throughout Britain...
N-COUNT : usu with supp
see also bank holiday
3.
The holidays are the time when children do not have to go to school. ( BRIT; in AM, use vacation )
...the first day of the school holidays.
N-PLURAL : usu the N , oft n N
4.
If you have a particular number of days’ or weeks’ holiday , you do not have to go to work for that number of days or weeks. ( BRIT; in AM, use vacation )
Every worker will be entitled to four weeks’ paid holiday a year.
N-UNCOUNT
5.
If you are holidaying in a place away from home, you are on holiday there. ( BRIT; in AM, use vacation )
Sampling the local cuisine is one of the delights of holidaying abroad...
VERB : oft cont , V prep / adv