American Dictionary
Definition holiday in American English
holiday
noun
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
noun
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
Differences between American and British English: holiday
In the U.S., a holiday is a single day fixed by law when people do not have to go to school or work: I forgot that Monday’s a holiday. In both the U.S. and the U.K., this can also be called a public holiday, but the usual British word is bank holiday. When American speakers say the holidays or the holiday season, they mean the period of time that includes Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s Day: Have you got any special plans for the holidays? In the U.K., holiday, often called someone’s holidays, usually means a period of time when you do not go to school or work, and usually you go to a place away from home to relax: Where are you going for your holiday? Americans call this a vacation.
a day that is a celebration of something special, on which you do not have to work or go to school
May 1st is a holiday in many European countries.
a vacation
an unexpected gap in a data set, as in cloud cover over satellite imagery or missing reports from a regularly scheduled series of reports
Additional photography was needed because of holidays in the original collection.
