collective plural or singular. A time or period of cessation from work, or of festivity or recreation; a vacation. See also blind man's holiday, n.

= vacation, n. 2. Now rare.

= vacation, n. 2. Also in plural. Now archaic.

Vacation, holiday.

With postmodifying adverbial phrase. A period spent away from home for leisure and recreation; a holiday. Now rare.

A holiday. Chiefly U.S.

esp. in the usage of school-children: holidays (see holiday, n. 2b).

colloquial. A (short) holiday, trip, etc.